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. Richard.
