Re: O: cobalt-panel-utils -- System utilities for Sun Cobalt's LCD and LEDs

On 2016-10-04 23:58, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 08:28:47AM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> > Hi Adrian, Chris
> > 
> > Am Sonntag, den 25.09.2016, 22:09 +0100 schrieb Chris Lamb:
> > > Adrian,
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > [..]
> > > 
> > > In the first case please re-upload the latest version and ping me; I
> > > will
> > > fast-track it through NEW.
> > > 
> > > (Or Tobias uploads, it doesn't matter).
> > 
> > I do not have intention to reintroduce it. It should be done by someone
> > how wants to take care about it -- as Maintainer. Without maintainer we
> > will have it rotting again.
> >...
> 
> "rotting" is just a way to make "it worked" sound bad.
> 
> I am still hoping that someone of the MIPS maintainers could say whether 
> or not there is a chance that some Cobalts might still be working with
> stretch - this is the relevant question.

As Tobias Frost already said, the support for MIPS Cobalt has been removed
in Jessie. In addition they won't be able to run Stretch either. So it was
good to get this now useless package removed.

Aurelien