reopen 476805 thanks Hi, On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 07:40:40AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, maximilian attems wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > > when building 'mkvmlinuz' on ppc64/unstable, I get the following error: > > > > that is not an official debian arch. > > it is true that ppc64 not a release architecture, yes. But it is a valid > Debian architecture which is supported by almost all Debian packages. > The Debian toolchain with gcc-4.3 and glibc as well as the Debian > installer, dpkg and many other Debian packages explicitly support ppc64. > > Altogether more than 98% of the packages from the etch release support > the ppc64 architecture. And work is being done to make this even better > for the lenny release. While it is true that the ppc64 architecture is utterly useless in most cases, I do not feel like closing a wishlist bug report of a porter with such a simple patch. Therefore, as co-maintainer of mkvmlinuz, I am reopening this bug which is going to be closed in my upcoming upload... > > > The patch adds 'gcc-multilib [ppc64]' to the Build-Depends > > > and 'ppc64' to the Architecture line in debian/control. > > > > this arch seems to have no real benefit and thus isn't considered for > > inclusion. thus closing > > This seems to be a rather harsh reaction to a simple wishlist request > from a porter. > > The ppc64 port is certainly not a mainstream port. But at least some > people are using it. The current popcon statistics shows the same number > of machines for ppc64 as for kfreebsd-amd64. Also, some people who are > running the powerpc port on ppc64 machines are using 64-bit packages > from the ppc64 port. > > On behalf of the ppc64 porters I ask you to revise your decision to > plainly reject any requests to support the ppc64 port. Yes, it does not hurt release architectures. BTW, you have opened the same kind of bugs in yaboot a long time ago. I did not feel like including your patches back then. Who needs a bootloader which can access more than 4GB of RAM anyway? :] However, it seems 64-bit support made its way upstream, so you will get it in my next yaboot upload. Cheers, -- .''`. Aurélien GÉRÔME : :' : `. `'` Debian Developer `- Unix Sys & Net Admin
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