Salut, On 2019-07-22 10:24, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Salut Aurélien ! > > On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 12:47 PM Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > The mips architecture, supporting 32-bit big-endian MIPS CPUs, has > > been supported in Debian for more than 15 years. Due to the limited 2GB > > virtual address space and due to the fact this architecture is one of > > the last big-endian architecture Debian supports, the porting effort > > is increasingly difficult. On the other hand the interest for this > > architecture is going down, and with it the human resources available > > for porting is going down. > > Thanks for your dedication these last years. > > > Now that buster has been released, it is probably time to drop this > > architecture from bullseye and sid. Unless there is a sudden interest > > for this architecture, that is commitment from some new porters and new > > hardware for the build daemons, the plan is to ask for the ftpmasters > > to drop this architecture in about 4 weeks. > > In other words, mips is not going to debian-ports ?
If there are nobody taking care of the port, nor hardware for the build daemons, the port will become unusable in a few months or even in a few weeks given the rate of changes currently happening in sid. I therefore do not see the point of moving it to debian-ports. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net
