Bug#296205: support for ppc 1.3.1 packages

[Barry Hawkins]

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Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
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| Maybe they don't even have them. It'd be nice if someone took up the
| task to contact blackdown about their mirror status and debian packages,
| last time I wanted to add support for a certain blackdown release, I
| couldn't because not a single mirror was bother working and had the
| package uptodate (and gave more than 5kB/s download).
|
| If you could identify a working, uptodate and good-bandwidth mirror,
| that'd be appreciated. If needed, I could maybe offer the blackdown
| project a master mirror site with rsync/ftp/http, and arrange some good
| mirrors even. A few core mirrors under the blackdown.org DNS name would
| be nice to get some more reliability there, as if a mirrors breaks, you
| can point DNS to some other mirror that does work.
|
| --Jeroen
Jeroen,
~    I subscribed to the Blackdown list and will pose the questions.  I
don't expect much, given that they currently only list two mirrors for
all of North America, and one of them (ftp.tux.org) doesn't seem to
work.  Here is my understanding of the question(s) for the Blackdown
team; please comment on it and then I will send on whatever we arrive at:

1.) Is the Blackdown Java Linux team planning to distribute a Debian
package for the recently-released PowerPC 1.3.1 JDK and JRE[0]?  Is
Blackdown open to Debian packages for these items built from the Debian
Java Packaging project[1]?

2.) What is the outlook for mirrors of Blackdown offerings?  The current
list[2] is rather sparse and some mirrors listed prove unreliable and
quite slow.  Is Blackdown open to assistance with enhancing the mirror
infrastructure?

[0] -
http://www.mail-archive.com/java-linux@java.blackdown.org/msg15744.html
[1] - http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/
[2] - http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java-linux-d2.html

Regards,
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Barry Hawkins
All Things Computed
site: www.alltc.com
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Registered Linux User #368650
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