Re: Future of GNU/kFreeBSD in the debian-ports archive
On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 06:11:15PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Over the past year, GNU/kFreeBSD hasn't seen any significant
> development. After reaching out to various individuals involved, it
> seems unlikely that the situation will change in the foreseeable future.
> Here are some statistics that support this observation:
>
> - The last buildd upload for kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386 was over a
> year ago.
> - There have been no porter uploads for kfreebsd-i386 in the past year.
> - In the last year, only 11 porter uploads for kfreebsd-amd64 have been
> recorded, with the most recent one occurring over two months ago.
> - Only approximately 30% of the packages on these architectures are
> up-to-date.
- kfreebsd has not been bootstrappable in a while and I removed it from
rebootstrap QA in June 2020 after a while of pings. I did not receive
complaints since and no interest in bootstrapping it again.
- tar FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64 since 2016. It is bd-uninstallable since
2022.
- I hope that Matthias Klose replies as he was hinting at the
maintenance cost in gcc.
> With my ports-master hat, I think it is time to consider the removal of
> both the kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386 architectures from the
> debian-ports archive. I would like to emphasize that packages will still
> be available on snapshot.d.o for anyone interested in reviving the port.
I concur. Like Jessica, working with kfreebsd was an interesting
adventure to me. I have good memories of having worked with Steven
Chamberlain before Jessica, thanks.
> In any case, I am waiting for feedback, and I will wait for at least a
> month before taking any action.
I appreciate your careful way of doing this.
Helmut
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