Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 5/9/17 8:01 AM, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:
> On 2017-05-09 10:12, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> Why not?  If an arch is considered a non-security-supported arch
>> then you would just ignore it in a security bug.
>
> We dropped security coverage already for ia64 and are in the process to
> drop it for sparc as well.
>
> So how do you want to cleanup a package which is the last ebuild of the
> package and still marked stabled for ia64/sparc? You cannot. If you are
> lucky you would only remove a package without any rdeps. But in most
> cases you are breaking the tree.
>
>
>> Otherwise a revbump could break stage3 on those arches.
>
> Is this really a problem? What could happen:
>
> Worst case: Existing stage3 for this specific dev/exp architecture will
> be very old because any attempt to refresh the stage3 image will fail
> with a build error. However, the last working stage3 image won't go away
> until it was replaced by a newer working one...
>

I maintain quite a few ppc stage3's for uclibc and musl.  I would
appreciate keeping ppc as is.  It is still a useful arch for many
devices today, eg. some high end Mikrotik routers.


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