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Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc

> > It's not a matter of reworking the code.  No one wants to work on it
> > at all!  At least, judging by the number of people actively
> > maintaining most of binutils, that seems to be the case.  Are *you*
> > interested in maintaining sparc-aout or sparc-coff?  There are sparc
> > bug reports dating back to 2004 that no one has analyzed!
> 
> Again, this isn't fair. You cannot expect having to step up as a maintainer
> just because they are users of some code.

Not every user has to step up, but someone has to step up. Someone
has to take care of the code, and using the fair-unfair approach,
it would not be fair to ask existing maintainers to maintain a target
they are not interested in either.

-- 
Joel
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