Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
Usertags: remove
Please remove x-loader from unstable.
Reasons (RoQA):
- Maintained by the Debian QA Group; the last upload
(1.5.1+git20110715+fca7cd2-7, October 2024) was a QA upload that had to
lower the debhelper compat level from 13 to 8 to work around linker
flags breaking the build.
- Obsolete: x-loader is the first-stage bootloader for TI OMAP3/OMAP4
boards (BeagleBoard, IGEPv2, Overo, PandaBoard). Upstream is dead (git
snapshot from 2011-07-15); these boards have been booted by U-Boot SPL
for over a decade.
- Unused: popcon reports 1 installation of x-loader-omap4-panda and none
for the other binary packages. There are no reverse dependencies.
- Likely FTBFS: the Debian armhf binaries date from October 2024
(gcc-14). In Ubuntu, a no-change rebuild of the same source with the
current toolchain fails on armhf because the package builds for an ARMv7
target without an FPU, which the hard-float toolchain rejects:
cc1: error: '-mfloat-abi=hard': selected architecture lacks an FPU
...
(.text+0x6): undefined reference to `raise'
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/x-loader/1.5.1+git20110715+fca7cd2-7build1/+build/32794282
Removal has been requested in Ubuntu as well:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2170638
Thanks,
Sebastien Bacher
