Hi Ard! On 1/14/23 00:25, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
Thanks for reporting back. I (mis)read the debian ports page [3], which mentions Debian 7 as the highest Debian version that supports IA64, and so I assumed that support had been dropped from Debian.
This page talks about officially supported ports. Debian Ports is an unofficial spin maintained by a number of Debian Developers and external developers that are volunteering to maintain these ports.
However, if only a handful of people want to keep this port alive for reasons of nostalgia, it is obviously obsolete, and we should ask ourselves whether it is reasonable to expect Linux contributors to keep spending time on this.
You could say this about a lot of hardware, can't you?
Does the Debian ia64 port have any users? Or is the system that builds the packages the only one that consumes them?
There is the popcon statistics. However, that is opt-on and the numbers are not really trustworthy. We are getting feedback from time to time from people using it. Is there any problem with the ia64 port at the moment that would justify removal? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
