Adam D. Barratt dixit:
>There isn't an m68k port in Debian though. Obviously ftp-master may
>disagree, but I don't see the point in keeping m68k-specific packages in
>the archive in case it somehow manages to get back in at some future
>point. It could always be reintroduced in such a case anyway.
The thing is, from how I understand the emile package in the archive,
it can be used to prepare m68k boot media on non-m68k machines.
>months ago. So there's been no change in that period?
Compiler fixes, and more getting to know the toolchain issues
involved, although there are still things I need to know first,
especially from the maintainers of the packages involved, which
would primarily be binutils and gcc… to be honest, I worked more
on atari-bootstrap and sort of forgot emile, but they have similar
challenges, so the work is not lost. (Also, other packages in the
main archive will benefit from this work, if it can be get done.)
Once a package is gone from the main archive, it's going to be a
lot more difficult to get it back. I’d like to argue to have a
case to keep it at least in experimental. It being not part of
the wheezy release will be a given, considering the closeness
of the freeze. (Which will also be an annoyance¹, as, judging
from last time, some maintainers will accept patches, some will
only upload to experimental, and some will totally refuse change
until the release is out. ¹-from a porter’s PoV)
From the usability PoV when losing that: the developer side is
not too difficult; as the package generates m68k binaries (too)
it can be uploaded to debian-ports’ unreleased repository. But
that will have only arch:m68k and arch:all binary packages, and
in the case of tools used to make things bootable on other plat-
forms, this makes it more difficult. Being in the main archive
also leads more credential to the binaries; I’m already keeping
a personal repository for a subset of the packages and a cross
toolchain aside, but that’s not as nice, plus I don’t use my DD
PGP key to sign that repository but a separate signing key.
I *am* sorry for dragging this out, but I’ve got a life and job,
quite a number of packages in Debian, and other things (like gcj
troubles on m68k) getting in the way, and I’m only human too… I
just want to say it’s not abandoned. (We did get Ada bootstrapped
in the meantime, though.)
Thanks for considering,
//mirabilos
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