Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Control: affects -1 + src:hipfft User: [email protected] Usertags: remove User: [email protected] Usertags: ppc64el User: [email protected] Usertags: ppc64el
Dear FTP Masters, Please remove the ppc64el binaries for hipfft from unstable. It has no reverse dependencies on ppc64el. There are reverse dependencies on other architectures, but those are not be relevent to this removal. This removal is necessary because hipfft depends on rocfft 6.4.3-1, which FTBFS on ppc64el due to an internal compiler error [1]. The missing ppc64el build is blocking migration of the new rocfft package to testing and thereby blocking the migration of hipfft as well. The ROCm packages on ppc64el don't work anyway due to missing driver support and the instabilty of the compiler makes it unreasonable to continue building the user space components on ppc64el. No one has stepped up to fix the compiler ICE and I do not have the time or skills to maintain the HIP language in LLVM on ppc64el myself. In the future, if it can be shown that the ROCm driver and LLVM support for HIP on ppc64el is stable and well-maintained, we can reintroduce ppc64el binaries for hipfft and other ROCm packages. For now, they should be removed so their problems do not needlessly block transitions on other architectures. Once hipfft is removed from unstable, it should be possbile to remove rocfft [2]. Thank you for your help! Sincerely, Cory Bloor [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/1120438 [2]: https://bugs.debian.org/1122646
