On Wed, 2023-09-27 at 19:25 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > While it's great that someone is willing to take care of the kernel port, > > we're still in the situation that the toolchain on ia64 is unmaintained > > and has many issues. > > @Adrian: > Say, wasn't that the case for how many years now? And was this not the > case when you, Jason and Jessica reinstated the ia64 port of Debian?
I think we resurrected the port sometime around 2017 [1] while the last ia64 GCC maintainer resigned in 2019 [2]. So we had two more years with both the kernel and the toolchain being maintained. I didn't check when glibc maintenance ceased though. > Similar for Linux, where there was no maintainer for ia64 since early > 2021 IIRC. As I have explained in a previous mail, ia64 is very special and therefore many changes that can be implemented rather straight-forward on most other architectures are more involved on ia64 which is why many upstream maintainers would rather see it go. I do not have strong opinion on this myself, but I understand that the port causes a particular burden for upstream maintainers and I can understand their reasoning. Adrian > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2017/12/ > [2] > https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=2ed6d245f7b79de73125edec51b2aa6db9ce3e6d -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
