[lubuntu-users] [Lubuntu-admins] Ending Lubuntu Zesty Daily PowerPC Builds

[Walter Lapchynski]

As much as I am sad to see PPC go, there's little we can do in light of the
lack of upstream support. Thanks for taking care of this, Simon.

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Simon Quigley <tsimonq2 at lubuntu.me> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I noticed we still had PowerPC Daily Builds enabled, and after the
> Technical Board decided[1] to remove the 32-bit powerpc architecture
> in future releases, Lubuntu will no longer be able to have a PowerPC Zesty
> release past Feature Freeze. I propose we remove the Lubuntu Zesty Daily
> PowerPC Builds effective Monday, February 13, 2017, if that's alright with
> everyone. This will ensure that we have adequate time to make sure the
> removal
> is clean and leaves no outstanding issues on the 16th when the architecture
> is removed.
>
> LTS support for PowerPC systems will not go away, lasting until April of
> 2019,
> so if you have a system that uses the PowerPC architecture on Lubuntu
> 16.04 LTS,
> you can expect security updates from the Ubuntu archive until April of
> 2021, or
> support from *us* until April of 2019[2] (only a *three* year support
> period as
> opposed to five for the entire archive, if that makes sense).
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-
> announce/2016-December/001199.html
> [2] http://lubuntu.me/xenial-released/
>
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