Re: Bug#817602: olpc-xo1: Removal of debhelper compat 4
Quoting Andres Salomon (2016-12-25 06:26:43)
> On December 24, 2016 7:24:00 PM PST, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
>>On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Andres Salomon wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the patch. Given that OLPC isn't really alive any more,
>>> I'm thinking the OLPC packages should probably just be removed from
>>the
>>> archive for Stretch. Popcon shows exactly 1 installation of this
>>> package.. https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=olpc-xo1
>>
>>I think you will find that OLPC is still active and recently made a
>>release:
>>
>>http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2016-December/thread.html
>>
>>They also have a Debian derivative:
>>
>>https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/OLPC
>>
>>I've asked James to respond to your mail.
>>
>
>
> I meant OLPC the hardware organization.
>
> I'm glad to see James is still producing Fedora-based images for
> legacy hardware.
For the record, OLPC is still alive, and still (pay James Cameron to
help prepare, and) release (Fedora-derived) system images for the (no
longer sold) XO-1 laptop.
> I'm pretty sure they haven't produced XO-1s in close to a decade, and
> that us what my packages are for. XO-1.5 and XO-4 were never
> supported without additional hacks.
>
> That said, I can orphan the packages; I just don't see much point with
> such old hardware and the lack of package users.
I agree it makes sense to drop this package: Despite the hardware vendor
still issueing software, we can no longer do so, because the XO-1 uses
an X86 chipset is incompatible with our i686 libc and kernel, I believe
(I haven't tested for quite some time, though - please correct me if
wrong).
- Jonas
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