On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 06:11:15PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Over the past year, GNU/kFreeBSD hasn't seen any significant > development. After reaching out to various individuals involved, it > seems unlikely that the situation will change in the foreseeable future. > Here are some statistics that support this observation: > > - The last buildd upload for kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386 was over a > year ago. > - There have been no porter uploads for kfreebsd-i386 in the past year. > - In the last year, only 11 porter uploads for kfreebsd-amd64 have been > recorded, with the most recent one occurring over two months ago. > - Only approximately 30% of the packages on these architectures are > up-to-date.
- kfreebsd has not been bootstrappable in a while and I removed it from rebootstrap QA in June 2020 after a while of pings. I did not receive complaints since and no interest in bootstrapping it again. - tar FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64 since 2016. It is bd-uninstallable since 2022. - I hope that Matthias Klose replies as he was hinting at the maintenance cost in gcc. > With my ports-master hat, I think it is time to consider the removal of > both the kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386 architectures from the > debian-ports archive. I would like to emphasize that packages will still > be available on snapshot.d.o for anyone interested in reviving the port. I concur. Like Jessica, working with kfreebsd was an interesting adventure to me. I have good memories of having worked with Steven Chamberlain before Jessica, thanks. > In any case, I am waiting for feedback, and I will wait for at least a > month before taking any action. I appreciate your careful way of doing this. Helmut