Re: state of mipsen cross toolchains

Matthias Klose <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:16:36 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.toolchain
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 29.10.19 00:20, YunQiang Su wrote:
> Helmut Grohne <[email protected]> 于2019年10月29日周二 上午4:51写道:
>>
>> Hi Matthias,
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 09:28:14PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
>>> If you think, there is coordination needed, then you were probably not aware
>>> of dropping mips as a release architecture and not adding it as a port.
>>
>> I'm sorry, my previous mail contained a very misleading typo. Where I
>> wrote "crossbuild-essential-mips", I actually meant
>> "crossbuild-essential-mipsel". No, I'm not trying to get "mips" back.
>>
>> Due to this typo, your answer does not answer any of my questions. I'm
>> actually interested in the fate of the remaining release mipsen
>> architectures. Or maybe I'm missing plans to remove all mipsen as
>> release architectures?
>>
> 
> So, should we make
> crossbuild-essential-mipsel/crossbuild-essential-mips64el back
> in src:build-essential?

no. any RC issue in the issue in the cross-mipsen packages would propagate to 
the build-essential package.

> I will figure out a mipsen src package and build other non-release
> architectures.

that would be appreciated.

Matthias