On 20.08.19 15:17, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Dear release team, > > On 2019-07-20 12:46, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> The mips architecture, supporting 32-bit big-endian MIPS CPUs, has >> been supported in Debian for more than 15 years. Due to the limited 2GB >> virtual address space and due to the fact this architecture is one of >> the last big-endian architecture Debian supports, the porting effort >> is increasingly difficult. On the other hand the interest for this >> architecture is going down, and with it the human resources available >> for porting is going down. >> >> Now that buster has been released, it is probably time to drop this >> architecture from bullseye and sid. Unless there is a sudden interest >> for this architecture, that is commitment from some new porters and new >> hardware for the build daemons, the plan is to ask for the ftpmasters >> to drop this architecture in about 4 weeks. > > This has now been one month, and nobody volunteered to help. Therefore > it's time to drop the "mips" architecture. From what I understood the > first step of the removal is to get rid of it in testing. Could you > please take care of that? > > Once it's done, I'll forward the request to ftpmasters.
what's the plan for mips, keep it in ports, or remove it completely? what's the plan with mipsel?
