ports: Add new Added and Dropped columns

This should convey when the ports got added and dropped as official
release architectures in a quicker way.

1 files changed, 87 insertions, 45 deletions

diff --git a/english/ports/index.wml b/english/ports/index.wml
index c2e737af420..14eebfc0d4f 100644
--- a/english/ports/index.wml
+++ b/english/ports/index.wml
@@ -46,32 +46,35 @@
 <th>Port</th>
 <th>Architecture</th>
 <th>Description</th>
+<th>Added</th>
 <th>Status</th>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a href="amd64/">amd64</a></td>
 <td>64-bit PC (amd64)</td>
-<td>First officially released with Debian 4.0. Port to 64-bit x86
+<td>Port to 64-bit x86
 processors. The goal is to support both 32-bit and 64-bit userland on this
 architecture. This port supports AMD's 64-bit Opteron, Athlon and Sempron
 processors, and Intel's processors with Intel 64 support, including the
 Pentium D and various Xeon and Core series.</td>
+<td>4.0</td>
 <td><a href="$(HOME)/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/">released</a></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a href="arm/">arm64</a></td>
 <td>64-bit ARM (AArch64)</td>
-<td>Version 8 of the ARM architecture included AArch64, a new 64-bit
-instruction set. Since Debian 8.0, the arm64 port has been included in
-Debian to support this new instruction set on processors such as the
+<td>The ARM architecture supports the new version 8 64-bit instruction set
+(called AArch64), for processes such as the
 Applied Micro X-Gene, AMD Seattle and Cavium ThunderX.</td>
+<td>8</td>
 <td><a href="$(HOME)/releases/stable/arm64/release-notes/">released</a></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a href="arm/">armel</a></td>
 <td>EABI ARM</td>
-<td>The oldest of the current Debian ARM ports supports little-endian
+<td>ARM port that supports little-endian
 ARM CPUs compatible with the v5te instruction set.</td>
+<td>5.0</td>
 <td><a href="$(HOME)/releases/stable/armel/release-notes/">released</a></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
@@ -83,17 +86,19 @@ of it. The armhf port was started to improve this situation and also take
 advantage of other features of newer ARM CPUs. The Debian armhf port
 requires at least an ARMv7 CPU with Thumb-2 and VFPv3-D16 floating point
 support.</td>
+<td>7.0</td>
 <td><a href="$(HOME)/releases/stable/armhf/release-notes/">released</a></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a href="i386/">i386</a></td>
 <td>32-bit PC (i386)</td>
-<td>The first architecture, and not strictly a port. Linux was originally
+<td>Linux was originally
 developed for the Intel 386 processors, hence the short name. Debian
 supports all IA-32 processors, made by Intel (including all Pentium
 series and recent Core Duo machines in 32-bit mode), AMD (K6, all Athlon
 series, Athlon64 series in 32-bit mode), Cyrix and other
 manufacturers.</td>
+<td>1.1</td>
 <td><a href="$(HOME)/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/">released</a></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
@@ -101,27 +106,30 @@ manufacturers.</td>
 <td>MIPS (64-bit little-endian mode)</td>
 <td>
 This port is little-endian, uses the N64 ABI, the MIPS64r1 ISA and hardware floating-point. 
-Part of the official release since Debian 9.
 </td>
+<td>9</td>
 <td><a href="$(HOME)/releases/stable/mips64el/release-notes/">released</a></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a href="powerpc/">ppc64el</a></td>
 <td>POWER7+, POWER8</td>
-<td>First officially released with Debian 8.0. Little-endian port of ppc64,
+<td>Little-endian port of ppc64,
 using the new Open Power ELFv2 ABI.</td>
+<td>8</td>
 <td><a href="$(HOME)/releases/stable/ppc64el/release-notes/">released</a></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a href="https://wiki.debian.org/RISC-V">riscv64</a></td>
 <td>RISC-V (64-bit little endian)</td>
 <td>Port for <a href="https://riscv.org/">RISC-V</a>, a free/open ISA, in particular the 64-bit little-endian variant.</td>
+<td>13</td>
 <td>testing</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a href="s390x/">s390x</a></td>
 <td>System z</td>
-<td>First officially released with Debian 7.0. A 64-bit userland for IBM System z mainframes.</td>
+<td>A 64-bit userland for IBM System z mainframes.</td>
+<td>7.0</td>
 <td><a href="$(HOME)/releases/stable/s390x/release-notes/">released</a></td>
 </tr>
 </tbody>
@@ -143,16 +151,17 @@ using the new Open Power ELFv2 ABI.</td>
 <th>Port</th>
 <th>Architecture</th>
 <th>Description</th>
+<th>Added</th>
+<th>Dropped</th>
 <th>Status</th>
 <th>Superseded by</th>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a href="alpha/">alpha</a></td>
 <td>Alpha</td>
-<td>First officially released with Debian 2.1.
-It failed the criteria for inclusion into the release of Debian 6.0 <q>squeeze</q>,
-and was in consequence removed from the archive.
-</td>
+<td>Port to the 64-bit RISC Alpha architecture.</td>
+<td>2.1</td>
+<td>6.0</td>
 <td>ports</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
@@ -160,9 +169,10 @@ and was in consequence removed from the archive.
 <td><a href="arm/">arm</a></td>
 <td>OABI ARM</td>
 <td>This port runs on a variety of embedded hardware, like routers or NAS
-devices. The arm port was first released with Debian 2.2, and was
-supported up to and including Debian 5.0, where it was removed.
+devices.
 </td>
+<td>2.2</td>
+<td>6.0</td>
 <td>dead</td>
 <td>armel</td>
 </tr>
@@ -170,17 +180,18 @@ supported up to and including Debian 5.0, where it was removed.
 <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130326061253/http://avr32.debian.net/">avr32</a></td>
 <td>Atmel 32-bit RISC</td>
 <td>Port to Atmel's 32-bit RISC architecture, AVR32. </td>
+<td>-</td>
+<td>-</td>
 <td>dead</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a href="hppa/">hppa</a></td>
 <td>HP PA-RISC</td>
-<td>First officially released with Debian 3.0 <q>woody</q>, this is a port 
-to Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC architecture.
-It failed the criteria for inclusion into the release of Debian 6.0 <q>squeeze</q>,
-and was in consequence removed from the archive.
+<td>A port to Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC architecture.
 </td>
+<td>3.0</td>
+<td>6.0</td>
 <td>ports</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
@@ -193,6 +204,8 @@ Debian GNU/Hurd is going to
 be one (possibly the first) GNU OS. The current project is
 founded on the i386 architecture.
 </td>
+<td>-</td>
+<td>-</td>
 <td>ports</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
@@ -202,37 +215,43 @@ founded on the i386 architecture.
 <td>Debian GNU/Hurd is also getting ported on the 64-bit x86 processors. It supports
 only 64-bit, not 32-bit along 64-bit.
 </td>
+<td>-</td>
+<td>-</td>
 <td>ports</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a href="ia64/">ia64</a></td>
 <td>Intel Itanium IA-64</td>
-<td>First officially released with Debian 3.0. This is a port to Intel's
+<td>This is a port to Intel's
 first 64-bit architecture. Note: this should not be confused with the
 latest Intel 64-bit extensions for Pentium 4 and Celeron processors,
-called Intel 64; for these, see the AMD64 port. With Debian 8 ia64 was
-removed from the release due to insufficient developer support.</td>
+called Intel 64; for these, see the AMD64 port.
+</td>
+<td>3.0</td>
+<td>8</td>
 <td>ports</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a href="kfreebsd-gnu/">kfreebsd-amd64</a></td>
 <td>64-bit PC (amd64)</td>
-<td>First officially released with Debian 6.0 as a technology preview and
-the first non-Linux port released by Debian. Port of the Debian GNU
-system to the kernel of FreeBSD. Is no longer part of the official release
-since Debian 8. The unofficial port stopped its development in 2023.</td>
+<td>Port of the Debian GNU system to the kernel of FreeBSD.
+It was released as the first non-Linux port of Debian as a technology preview.
+The unofficial port stopped its development in 2023.</td>
+<td>6.0</td>
+<td>8</td>
 <td>dead</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a href="kfreebsd-gnu/">kfreebsd-i386</a></td>
 <td>32-bit PC (i386)</td>
-<td>First officially released with Debian 6.0 as a technology preview and
-the first non-Linux port released by Debian. Port of the Debian GNU
-system to the kernel of FreeBSD. Is no longer part of the official release
-since Debian 8. The unofficial port stopped its development in 2023.</td>
+<td>Port of the Debian GNU system to the kernel of FreeBSD.
+It was released as the first non-Linux port of Debian as a technology preview.
+The unofficial port stopped its development in 2023.</td>
+<td>6.0</td>
+<td>8</td>
 <td>dead</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
@@ -240,39 +259,43 @@ since Debian 8. The unofficial port stopped its development in 2023.</td>
 <td><a href="http://www.linux-m32r.org/">m32</a></td>
 <td>M32R</td>
 <td>Port to the 32-bit RISC microprocessor of Renesas Technology.</td>
+<td>-</td>
+<td>-</td>
 <td>dead</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a href="m68k/">m68k</a></td>
 <td>Motorola 68k</td>
-<td>First officially released with Debian 2.0. The port failed to make
-the release criteria for Debian 4.0 and has therefore not been included
-in Etch and later releases and has been moved to debian-ports following that.
-The Debian m68k port runs on a wide variety
+<td>The Debian m68k port runs on a wide variety
 of computers based on the Motorola 68k series of processors — in
 particular, the Sun3 range of workstations, the Apple Macintosh personal
 computers, and the Atari and Amiga personal computers.</td>
+<td>2.0</td>
+<td>4.0</td>
 <td>ports</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a href="mips/">mips</a></td>
 <td>MIPS (big-endian mode)</td>
-<td>First officially released with Debian 3.0. Debian is being ported to
+<td>Debian is being ported to
 the MIPS architecture which is used in SGI machines (debian-mips —
 big-endian) and Digital DECstations (debian-mipsel — little-endian).
-The Debian MIPS port was discontinued after <a href="$(HOME)/releases/stable/mips/release-notes/">Debian 10 (Buster)</a></td>
+<td>3.0</td>
+<td>11</td>
 <td><a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2019/08/msg00582.html">dead</a></td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a href="mips/">mipsel</a></td>
 <td>MIPS (little-endian mode)</td>
-<td>First officially released with Debian 3.0. Debian is being ported to
+<td>Debian is being ported to
 the MIPS architecture which is used in SGI machines (debian-mips —
 big-endian) and Digital DECstations (debian-mipsel — little-endian).
-It is not part of the official release after Debian 12.</td>
+</td>
+<td>3.0</td>
+<td>13</td>
 <td><a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/09/msg00000.html">dead</a></td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
@@ -282,6 +305,8 @@ It is not part of the official release after Debian 12.</td>
 <td>A port of the Debian operating system, complete with apt,
 dpkg, and GNU userland, to the NetBSD kernel and libc.
 The port, never released, has been abandoned.</td>
+<td>-</td>
+<td>-</td>
 <td>dead</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
@@ -291,6 +316,8 @@ The port, never released, has been abandoned.</td>
 <td>A port of the Debian operating system, complete with apt,
 dpkg, and GNU userland, to the NetBSD kernel and libc.
 The port, never released, has been abandoned.</td>
+<td>-</td>
+<td>-</td>
 <td>dead</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
@@ -298,14 +325,19 @@ The port, never released, has been abandoned.</td>
 <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905061423/http://or1k.debian.net/">or1k</a></td>
 <td>OpenRISC 1200</td>
 <td>A port to the <a href="https://openrisc.io/">OpenRISC</a> 1200 open source CPU.</td>
+<td>-</td>
+<td>-</td>
 <td>dead</td>
+<td>-</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a href="powerpc/">powerpc</a></td>
 <td>Motorola/IBM PowerPC</td>
-<td>First officially released with Debian 2.2. This port runs on many of
+<td>This port runs on many of
 the Apple Macintosh PowerMac models, and on the CHRP and PReP open
-architecture machines. No longer part of the official release since Debian 9.</td>
+architecture machines.</td>
+<td>2.2</td>
+<td>9</td>
 <td>ports</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
@@ -315,25 +347,29 @@ architecture machines. No longer part of the official release since Debian 9.</t
 <td>
 A port to the "Signal Processing Engine" hardware present on low-power 32-bit FreeScale and IBM "e500" CPUs.
 </td>
+<td>-</td>
+<td>-</td>
 <td>dead</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a href="s390/">s390</a></td>
 <td>S/390 and zSeries</td>
-<td>First officially released with Debian 3.0. This is a port to IBM
-S/390 servers. Was removed with Debian 8.</td>
+<td>This is a port to IBM S/390 servers.</td>
+<td>3.0</td>
+<td>8</td>
 <td>dead</td>
 <td>s390x</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a href="sparc/">sparc</a></td>
 <td>Sun SPARC</td>
-<td>First officially released with Debian 2.1. This port runs on the Sun
+<td>This port runs on the Sun
 UltraSPARC series of workstations, as well as some of their successors
-in the sun4 architectures. Since the release of Debian 8 Sparc was no
-longer a release architecture, due to insufficient developer support.
+in the sun4 architectures.
 </td>
+<td>2.1</td>
+<td>8</td>
 <td>dead</td>
 <td>sparc64</td>
 </tr>
@@ -343,6 +379,8 @@ longer a release architecture, due to insufficient developer support.
 <td>
 A 64-bit port to SPARC processors.
 </td>
+<td>-</td>
+<td>-</td>
 <td>ports</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
@@ -353,6 +391,8 @@ A 64-bit port to SPARC processors.
 A port to Hitachi SuperH processors. Also supports the open source
 <a href="https://j-core.org/">J-Core</a> processor.
 </td>
+<td>-</td>
+<td>-</td>
 <td>ports</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
@@ -364,6 +404,8 @@ X32 is an ABI for amd64/x86_64 CPUs using 32-bit pointers.
 The idea is to combine the larger register set of x86_64 with
 the smaller memory and cache footprint resulting from 32-bit pointers.
 </td>
+<td>-</td>
+<td>-</td>
 <td>ports</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>