On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 10:30:37AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected], [email protected], 
> [email protected]
> 
> The maintainer of gcc-riscv64-unknown-elf no longer wishes to maintain
> the package, marking as orphaned.
> 
> It might be possible to switch this package to building from the
> gcc-X-source packages, instead of a forked upstream.
> 
> I will probably do a QA upload soon to resolve some outstanding
> reproducible builds and other issues, but do not intend to adopt the
> package myself for the long-term.

I do not know what happened here 4 years ago, but Keith seems to be an 
active maintainer of the package both back then and today.

> live well,
>   vagrant

On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 05:17:29PM +1100, Michael Lloyd wrote:
> I intend to adopt gcc-riscv64-unknown-elf.
>
> This is something I have worked with quite a bit and I am
> happy to serve as a maintainer for long term.
>
> I plan to rearchitect it to build from gcc-X-source packages
> rather than bundling the full GCC source tree, consistent
> with how gcc-X-cross works in Debian.

I'm not completely convinced by the rationale for the current setup,[1]
reverting it would be trivial on the technical side if wanted by the 
maintainer.

cu
Adrian

[1] 
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/gcc-riscv64-unknown-elf/-/commit/01e8b1c3798e5a8c7c3ce20d0f3aba018ebb4a54

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