Re: PowerPCSPE port status
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:21:51PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> 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…
Yes, that was it. The plot is available [1].
> That means if you read this and you need this port working please step up
> and do something :)
>
Yes, I don't think the port is available in the current situation. In
the long term, it make sense to keep it, if it is actually maintained.
Aurelien
[1] http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/graph-big.png
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