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Re: Bug#785770: RM: xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion [arm64] -- RoP; FTBFS; out-of-date; uninstallable; quite possiblly never worked, little if any utility



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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 I belive the out of date binary should be removed from sid for the following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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