On 6/14/19 1:14 AM, Richard Biener wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, Jim Wilson wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:39 AM Joel Sherrill <joel.sherr...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Ok with me if no one steps up and the downstream projects like Debian gets >>> notice. This is just a reflection of this architecture's status in the >>> world. >> >> I sent email to the debian-ia64 list half an hour ago. Just got a >> response. They mentioned that there is also a gentoo group that I >> didn't know about, and want to know why exactly we want to deprecate >> it. I can discuss it with them. > > The deprecation reason is a formal one - we do not have a listed > maintainer for the port which is a requirement for port acceptance > and IMHO should be a requirement for it to stay (not sure if that's > written anywhere). Note GCC 10 will still have the ia64 port it > is just that GCC 11 may not in case nobody steps up as maintainer. > > In some way it is also documenting to possible users that their > (target specific) bugs may receive no attention. Right. One could claim many other targets should be reviewed for possible deprecation.
Jeff
