[Moving to debian-powerpc as we are getting off-topic on debian-snapshot] On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 06:14 +0000, Budweiser Gregor wrote: > Our hardware does not support 64bit Interesting, what hardware do you have? > what could we do to help debian-ports? I'm not involved in the powerpc port, folks on the debian-powerpc mailing list can probably help you more, but some initial ideas: You could add support for your hardware to Linux mainline: https://www.kernel.org/ You could donate powerpc hardware so that Debian can do various tests on powerpc, for example package tests and reproducible builds tests. https://ci.debian.net/ https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/reproducible.html You could work on fixing build failures on powerpc: https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ftbfs.cgi?arch=powerpc You could work on powerpc-specific bug reports: https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org&tag=powerpc https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=debian-boot@lists.debian.org&tag=powerpc You could help maintain the powerpc wiki/web pages: https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ https://wiki.debian.org/PowerPC You could help maintain the general ports wiki/web pages: https://www.debian.org/ports/ https://wiki.debian.org/Ports You could help Debian more generally: https://www.debian.org/intro/help > we can't just share our deb packages, or could we? If you're rebuilding security updates there isn't any Debian suite where they could be uploaded as Debian ports doesn't have support for stable or security support. There is potential for the unofficial ports to get releases, but that requires lots of Debian infrastructure work. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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