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I have a bubba2 with a working debian jessie.

But now I cannot apt install any packages anymore since Debian dropped jessie powerpc from security.debian.org and official debian mirrors.

Is there anywhere an apt source of the last state of jessie powerpc, frozen in time, so to speak?

I learned ...

Hi Pal,

Could you describe the steps you had to take to upgrade your bubba/2 to Wheezy?
I would like to do the same.

Thanks
Oliver

One correction to a previous post of mine: I am not running Debian wheezy on my bubba/2. I must have been still so euphoric about having upgraded to squeeze a while ago that I got the Debian release version names mixed up for a moment.

However, I would love to upgrade to wheezy. I will send a ...

Hm, strange. I could swear I saw a bunch of the repos listed as "private" last time I checked.
Maybe I was confused.

Anyhow, that's great then!

Could you also speak to my question about working with the Debian project to find maintainers for these packages?

Thanks
Oliver

Thanks for the github link, Johannes.

Good to know the code bases are already on a good structured repo service like github.

But many of these repositories are private.

I am mainly wondering whether you have an "exit strategy" for when you will no longer support the bubba packages and patches ...

Hello,

Given Excito's recent focus shift away from Bubba and given that security issues like the one addressed in this thread can /will come up again, wouldn't it be the right thing to release _all_ of Excito's deb packages as Open Source and give the Bubba / Debian community a chance to gradually ...

My post above by user Binkem was originally not posted to this thread, but to the one about the 2.6.0.1 release (security upgrade).

I will post it again in the right place.