Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 01:49:08 +0100, peter green wrote: > I belive the out of date binary should be removed from sid for the following > reasons. > > 1: it's uninstallable with the xorg currently in sid/stretch > 2: while I have not investigated throughly it seems very likely that the use > of stub versions of those functions would have rendered the driver unusable. > 3: the siliconmotion chips in question seem to be obsolete parts mostly used > for onboard graphics in old systems (though I did find one industrial > minipcie card that claimed to use a siliconmotion chip, dunno if it's one > supported by this driver). It seems unlikely that one would end up in an > arm64 system. > > If this removal request is actioned I will downgrade bug 785491 > Please don't do that quite yet. I'm still undecided whether to keep the package in the archive at all. Cheers, Julien
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