Control: reassign -1 src:ardour 1:7.5.0+ds-1 Control: retitle -1 ardour FTBFS on mips64el and mipsel Control: tags -1 ftbfs patch Control: forwarded -1 https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/ardour/-/merge_requests/5
On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 10:42:44AM +0200, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: > Package: ftp.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: ftp.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: remove > X-Debbugs-Cc: ard...@packages.debian.org > Control: affects -1 + src:ardour > > 'ardour' FTBFS on the mips*el architectures. > Rather than spending time on fixing these obscure errors, I would like > to just drop these architectures. Fixing these was pretty straightforward, since these were common issues for these architectures with common fixes. > Reasoning: > - Ardour is a full-fledged DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) for studio > production (multichannel recordings, postproduction,...). > I do not think there is any mips*el hardware out there that can be put > to practical use for such a task. I agree with you that ardour is a leaf package of low importance on MIPS, but this reason might not be true. It's not clear whether our port can run on this hardware specifically due to the FPU mess, but hardware like [1] might be suitable. China has a 6th of the worlds population, but little awareness exists outside China of their domestic hardware and software developments since these rarely end up being sold abroad and tend to be mostly ignored by Western media. > - Just today the main porter suggested to remove the entire mipsel > architecture (although not mips64el) from the supported archs. > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/07/msg00217.html >... And even then mipsel will still be present in ports. cu Adrian [1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chinese-laptop-featuring-new-14nm-loongsoon-3a4000-cpu-appears
