[intrepid] missing linux kernel for powerpc

[Herbert V. Riedel]

Intrepid/powerpc seems to be lacking any installable linux kernel, in fact it's also missing the "linux-meta" generated meta-packages such as "linux-image-powerpc"

this causes the install images to lack an installable kernel as well
(see http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/daily/current/intrepid-alternate-powerpc+ps3.list)

the main cause for all of this seems to be that builds are failing
(see e.g. http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17507831/buildlog_ubuntu-intrepid-powerpc.linux_2.6.27-3.4_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz ):

...
dpkg-buildpackage: source package linux
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 2.6.27-3.4
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture powerpc
 /usr/bin/fakeroot debian/rules clean
debian/rules:24: debian/rules.d/powerpc.mk: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `debian/rules.d/powerpc.mk'. Stop.
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: /usr/bin/fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2
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Build finished at 20080910-1652
FAILED [dpkg-buildpackage died]
Purging chroot-autobuild/build/buildd/linux-2.6.27
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[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

No, it's expected that linux will fail to build on powerpc, since the powerpc kernel is now built from a separate source package, linux-ports.

The missing powerpc metapackages are bug 253904. (I don't understand why this is taking so long to fix.)