On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 16:30 +0200, Frédéric Bonnard wrote: > Hi, > > I've followed luajit closely since 2015 on ppc64el as a porter > without enough knowledge to port it, but trying to ease on the > packaging/Debian side (being both IBMer/DD). > That port has been a mixed effort between a code bounty and an IBM > effort (some devs) . > It didn't started well ( > https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/PPC64le-port-status,1 ) > and it has never grown and be really part of the upstream project > sadly. > > With the years, I'm even less optimistic as no IBM nor external > developer seem to be working on that. Mike Pall seems to be around > though as you said there's no release (not necessarily a bad sign). > I can ping inside IBM but I'm not sure there will be any positive > feedback. > > So I'd say we have no choice, i.e. let's drop IBM arches . > What I did a few times for packages depending on libluajit was to use > liblua instead : > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892765 > > Thanks, > F.
Nobody want to spend time on an bottomless hole ... I'll simply remove ppc64el architecture support from src:luajit, and give src:luajit2 (openresty) a try.