On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 08:56:40AM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Dear Michael,
On 12.12.22 08:27, Michael Cree wrote:
With the usrmerge uploads now depending on a recent libc version Alpha
is now dead in the water. Nothing can be built. Thus we have to fix
glibc to continue building.
I am not prepared to fix ev4 issues so if no one else is prepared to
fix them then without a architecture baseline raise this is the end
of Alpha on Debian Ports.
I'm not sure I fully understand the issue here:
See, glibc used to work for alpha up until 2.33 as I read. Then a change
broke it for alpha with 2.34. Does the respective glibc maintainer for
alpha (Richard Henderson according to [1]) really have no interest in
fixing it?
RTH hasn't had working Alpha hardware for quite some time.
One of the glibc maintainers did have access to one of my Alphas
until last year but unfortunately the hosting site is no longer
prepared to host it so I can no longer make that Alpha available
to developers.
So with that glibc Alpha support is rotting fast.
Many of the other ports (e.g. armel, armhf, i386) have had
architecture baseline increases in the last few years, and none
support hardware anywhere near as old as alpha ev4.
I am no longer personally prepared to support Alpha unless
the architecture baseline increase is done. I have no
ev4/ev45 hardware and no longer have any interest in supporting
them.