Time to obsolete arm-symbian?

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi!

On 8/17/20 8:34 PM, Jessica Clarke wrote:
> As one of the porters in Debian (Adrian, the other, Cc'ed) I have some
> concerns about this decision. As far as I can tell, the proposal was
> made and a decision reached in just a single day? Moreover, this was
> done hidden inside a thread about arm-symbian that no ia64 porter in
> their right mind would notice and care about? Please, consider
> reverting this. The Debian ia64 port is alive and happily using new
> binutils versions as they get packaged for Debian, and if there are
> bugs that actually matter we will find and fix them. The segfaults are
> maybe an issue, but as far as I know we have not observed them
> happening in the real world, so we are not aware of them nor do they
> seem like a priority to address. Sergei Trofimovich (also Cc'ed) is a
> Gentoo dev who is maintaining their ia64 port and fixed a GDB build
> regression just recently. Both distributions have active users (and I
> don't just mean ourselves). So, please, could you try and actually
> involve your community before making instant decisions that have
> serious consequences for them?

The irony here is that Anatoly (CC'ed) is currently setting up a new ia64
porterbox for the GCC compile farm to provide a machine for testing :-).

Adrian

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