Hi,

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Jul 7, 2016, at 8:57 PM, Holger Wansing <li...@wansing-online.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Holger Wansing <li...@wansing-online.de> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> Paul Wise <p...@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.


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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