On 03/28/2018 03:38 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > I conclude that the Debian project is running no real m68k hardware any > more (please correct me if I'm wrong) and we are possibly doing a > service for some users who potentially also run qemu (wild guess of > mine). I'm wondering when it might be time to fully drop a hardware > port instead of draining developer time for ethernity.
If that happens, I leave the Debian project for good. The answer is no! > I'm personally drawng the decision that I will tag any bug that concerns > scientific software (which is my main focus) and that bug is on m68k > only as wontfix and will set severity to minor. I'm sorry but my focus > is on real use cases and stumbling upon bugs in BTS which are not > helping any real user is just draining time. To be honest, lots of that scientific code has questionable quality and I have seen lots of packages from the Debian Science team with hard-coded compiler options and other non-sense. So, to be honest, I could send the same statement into your direction: Those science packages should be kicked out due to their low quality. As for the m68k port: There is a large user base around the Amiga and Atari groups and it would therefore be not acceptable to remove something that people use. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
