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

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Hi Michael,

On 18-07-2020 11:51, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 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.

These request should normally be filed against ftp.debian.org and the
package should be removed from unstable first (and then it's
automatically removed from testing). Is there any reason why you request
the removal from testing or should the bug just be reassigned?

Paul

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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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