Bug#1086023: binutils: Please drop cross-support for ia64

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Source: binutils
Version: 2.43.1-5
Severity: normal
User: debian-ia64@lists.debian.org
Usertags: ia64
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-ia64@lists.debian.org

Hello,

the ia64 port was dropped from both glibc and the kernel upstream so that
building anything beyond an old or forked kernel for ia64 has become rather
cumbersome. However, anyone wanting to build the kernel can just use the
toolchains provided by the kernel mirrors anyway [1].

Thus, I suggest we drop cross-support for ia64 from binutils for the time
being in order to reduce the footprint of the binutils package. Dropping
support from the GCC cross package is not necessary as ia64 was never
supported in the first place.

Thanks,
Adrian

> [1] https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/

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