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Bug#965254: RM: openhackware/0.4.1+git-20140423.c559da7c-4.1

From	Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.devel.release
Subject	Bug#965254: RM: openhackware/0.4.1+git-20140423.c559da7c-4.1
Date	2020-07-18 12:00 +0200
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Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: rm

The package openhackware builds a single binary blob, ppc_rom.bin,
which is a bios/firmware for old PowerPC machines.

This firmware were used by qemu package (namely, qemu-system-ppc)
to emulate PowerPC hardware.  However, since version 5.0, support
for this old PowerPC machine type has been removed from qemu, so
this package is basically useless now.

There's no other purpose for this single binary ROM image in the
Debian archive.

Please remove openhackware package from testing.

Thanks,

/mjt

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Bug#965254: RM: openhackware/0.4.1+git-20140423.c559da7c-4.1 Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> - 2020-07-18 12:00 +0200
  Bug#965254: RM: openhackware/0.4.1+git-20140423.c559da7c-4.1 Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> - 2020-07-28 10:00 +0200
    Bug#965254: RM: openhackware/0.4.1+git-20140423.c559da7c-4.1 Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> - 2020-07-28 10:10 +0200
      Bug#965254: RM: openhackware/0.4.1+git-20140423.c559da7c-4.1 Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> - 2020-07-28 18:00 +0200
        Bug#965254: RM: openhackware/0.4.1+git-20140423.c559da7c-4.1 Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> - 2020-07-28 23:10 +0200

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