Re: missing 64bit ports

[Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

On 7/17/2015 11:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 17 10:39, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> > On 7/17/2015 9:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > On Jul 15 16:12, Ken Brown wrote:
> > > > On 7/15/2015 2:28 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > > On Jul 15 16:24, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> >
> > > > > Thanks for looking into this.
> > > > >
> > > > > Two points:
> > > > >
> > > > > - Shall we remove all 32b-bit only orphaned packages for which we don't
> > > > >    get a maintainer until, say, end of August?
> > > >
> > > > That seems reasonable, as long as there are exceptions for packages where
> > > > the lack of a 64-bit package is due to genuine porting difficulties.
> > > > libsigsegv was in that category until yesterday.  Another one I'm aware of
> > > > is ffcall.
> > >
> > > I understand, but they are unmaintained.  So, who's going to check
> > > if they are buildable as 64 bit packages?
> >
> > I will look on them, just to complete the effort ;-)
> >
> > But IMHO some should be killed anyway
> >
> > aewm++ ccdoc cramfs mtd ioperm xgraph xsri xview rxvt
> Sounds like a plan.  These and all mingw packages.

Jari (the not-maintainer) just uploaded aewm++.
I updated the list, accordingly.

> > as they are well dead upstream, and eventually also
> >
> > nfrotz scsh wtf logiweb
> >
> > for the same reason.
>
> As for logiweb, I have still hopes.  Yaakov uploaded Klaus' SSH key
> on 2015-01-27.  Unfortunately Klaus never followed up after that,
> but I just pinged him (and CCed him now).
>
> > These have surely porting issue
> >
> > ffcall flexdll xwinwm
> >
> > like xemacs and pdftk so they belong to a different category
>
> Ok.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Corinna