missing 64bit ports

[Marco Atzeri]

On 7/17/2015 11:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 17 10:39, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> On 7/17/2015 9:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Jul 15 16:12, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>> On 7/15/2015 2:28 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>> On Jul 15 16:24, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for looking into this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Two points:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Shall we remove all 32b-bit only orphaned packages for which we don't
>>>>>    get a maintainer until, say, end of August?
>>>>
>>>> That seems reasonable, as long as there are exceptions for packages where
>>>> the lack of a 64-bit package is due to genuine porting difficulties.
>>>> libsigsegv was in that category until yesterday.  Another one I'm aware of
>>>> is ffcall.
>>>
>>> I understand, but they are unmaintained.  So, who's going to check
>>> if they are buildable as 64 bit packages?
>>
>> I will look on them, just to complete the effort ;-)
>>
>> But IMHO some should be killed anyway
>>
>> aewm++ ccdoc cramfs mtd ioperm xgraph xsri xview rxvt
> Sounds like a plan.  These and all mingw packages.

Jari (the not-maintainer) just uploaded aewm++.
I updated the list, accordingly.

>> as they are well dead upstream, and eventually also
>>
>> nfrotz scsh wtf logiweb
>>
>> for the same reason.
>
> As for logiweb, I have still hopes.  Yaakov uploaded Klaus' SSH key
> on 2015-01-27.  Unfortunately Klaus never followed up after that,
> but I just pinged him (and CCed him now).
>
>> These have surely porting issue
>>
>> ffcall flexdll xwinwm
>>
>> like xemacs and pdftk so they belong to a different category
>
> Ok.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Corinna
>