Re: Please update Ports wiki page
Hi
On 8 de julio de 2016 19:20:13 GMT+02:00, Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > On Jul 7, 2016, at 8:57 PM, Holger Wansing
><linux@wansing-online.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
>> >>>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The Ports wiki page (https://www.debian.org/ports/) appears to
>be out
>> >>>> of date. Its causing confusion among users and maintainers. For
>> >>>> example, a few bugs were reported for Sparc even though Tokarev,
>a
>> >>>> QEMU-<arch>-static maintainer, states its no longer supported.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Spark should probably be labelled as discontinued.
>> >>>
>> >>> I've CCed the SPARC porters, hopefully they can come up with a
>patch for this.
>> >>>
>> >>> I expect they would be interested to hear about bugs in qemu so
>they
>> >>> can fix them.
>> >>
>> >> 1. Please note that the page is not a wiki, as stated above.
>> >>
>> >> 2. And additionally to the issues mentioned above, it's even
>worse:
>> >>
>> >> 2.1 There are more archs listed as "released", while they got
>> >> removed from Jessie: ia64, kFreeBSD 64-bit, kFreeBSD 32-bit,
>
>> >> s390, and the already mentioned sparc.
>> >
>> > I cooked a patch, to deal with all the suggestions made here:
>> >
>> > - move ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, s390 and sparc to the
>"unofficial
>> > ports" section
>>
>> ia64 isn't even an unofficial port, it was dropped completely. I
>think we even
>> dropped support for it in src:glibc.
>>
>> sparc has also been removed completely. It was replaced by sparc64.
>
>You are right, strictly spoken.
>But there are several "old and removed" ports in the "unofficial ports"
>section,
>like alpha or arm or hppa.
>To solve this, we would need to create a third section like
>"Old/Removed ports",
>or the like.
>
I think the status field saying "released", "discontinued" etc provides the information with the current layout.
Thanks for caring about the ports page. I marked the patches for review (in my TODO) but couldn't find time :/
Cheers
>
>Holger
>
>> > - set ia64 from "released" to "discontinued" and added a sentence
>to document
>> > this change.
>> > - kfreebsd-amd64: added a sentence to document the current,
>non-official status
>> > - kfreebsd-i386: added a sentence to document the current,
>non-official status
>> > - set m68k from "discontinued/being revived" to "in progress"
>> > - set s390 from "released" to "replaced by s390x" and added a
>sentence to
>> > document this change.
>> > - sh: changed port name from "sh" to "sh4". And added a sentence to
>mention
>> > the J-Core processor.
>> >
>> >
>> > A patch is attached, as well as the locally build html page, how it
>would
>> > look like.
>> >
>> >
>> > Comments?
>> >
>> > Holger
>> >
>> >
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Laura Arjona Reina
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