Re: PowerPCSPE port status
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:07:25AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> Freescale still sells numerous SoCs that would utilize this port. (8548, P2020, P102x, P1010, etc.). So if its not impacting anyone would be useful to keep it around.
Ehm yes. I think they guarantee something like 10 years of availability since
the announcement.
I know there are atleast a dozen libs which didn't make a transition in this
port. That means you need some hand crafting until the buildd can take over.
So if you look at [0] there are only 51 packeges ready to built and 6983
require some deps which are not yet available. This means only around 27% of
the port is complete port and we were once at around 91%. Unless I'm wrong,
the archive purges packages _all packages after a few days if new packages
arrive which is another problem. So I'm not even sure a complete bootstrap is
still possible…
That means if you read this and you need this port working please step up
and do something :)
[0] http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architecture.php?a=powerpcspe&suite=sid
> - k
Sebastian
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