Bug#893188: mapnik: add mips* back to arch list

Sebastiaan Couwenberg sebastic at xs4all.nl
Sun Mar 18 09:05:27 UTC 2018


On 03/18/2018 09:23 AM, YunQiang Su wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 5:41 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> Why do you want mapnik back on mips*?
>>
>> I don't expect any actual users of the mapnik family of packages on
>> mips*, so despite improvements to the architecture in Debian I don't
>> think it's worth the effort.
> 
> At least Loongson may need it, as Loongson is working on providing
> high-end PC/Server in China, and some department of government and
> some companies will need it.
> At least please provide mips64el and mips64r6el, both of them are
> targeting for high-end machines.

If they "may" need it, I strongly prefer those users who will actually
use mapnik on mips* to request it. So far it's still hypothetical.

I'm inclined to close this as wontfix until actual users of mapnik
request it on mips64el.

Kind Regards,

Bas



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