On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:21:51PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:07:25AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > > Freescale still sells numerous SoCs that would utilize this port. (8548, > > P2020, P102x, P1010, etc.). So if its not impacting anyone would be useful > > to keep it around. > > Ehm yes. I think they guarantee something like 10 years of availability since > the announcement. > > I know there are atleast a dozen libs which didn't make a transition in this > port. That means you need some hand crafting until the buildd can take over. > So if you look at [0] there are only 51 packeges ready to built and 6983 > require some deps which are not yet available. This means only around 27% of > the port is complete port and we were once at around 91%. Unless I'm wrong, > the archive purges packages _all packages after a few days if new packages > arrive which is another problem. So I'm not even sure a complete bootstrap is > still possible…
Yes, that was it. The plot is available [1]. > That means if you read this and you need this port working please step up > and do something :) > Yes, I don't think the port is available in the current situation. In the long term, it make sense to keep it, if it is actually maintained. Aurelien [1] http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/graph-big.png -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120917143122.gb3...@ohm.aurel32.net
