armel in lucid: supported architectures vs. ports

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Tue Jan 12 13:23:05 GMT 2010


On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 01:13:41PM +0000, James Troup wrote:
> Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> writes:
> > I've edited https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PackageArchive,
> > which used to contradict the statement above.  Could you please review
> > it for correctness and clarity?
> 
> It looks good to me, although the pedant in me wants to nitpick over two
> things:
> 
>  1) The list of Unofficial/Official seems to be based on today and
>     ignores older releases which are still supported, e.g. I believe
>     6.06 server is still supported for sparc and powerpc and that lpia
>     was supported for at least some releases?  OTOH, perhaps adding this
>     historical information will just confuse matters.

I think it's reasonable to add this, although I've left the summary
table simple.  Done for powerpc and sparc.

Unfortunately I can't remember the details of which releases had lpia as
an official architecture.  Matt, perhaps you could fill in the details
here?

>  2) the 'discontinued' notes for hppa and lpia are only in the Ports
>     section, not the Official/Unofficial section which confused me at
>     first.

Duplicated now.

> I took the liberty of adding a link to the mirrors for releases and
> archive.

Thanks.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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