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

[YunQiang Su]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 5:05 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg
<sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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.
>

In deed, a Loongson guy told me that their customers are using mapnik.
He didn't tell me the customers of course.

@Anibal, @Douglas,
   I guess we should also ask for any our customers are using it.

@Sebastiaan, I know it is a quite hard work to maintain so many packages,
and before the response from MIPS is some slow, I am very sorry of that.
Anyway, we can have a quicker response in future.

> I'm inclined to close this as wontfix until actual users of mapnik
> request it on mips64el.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas



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YunQiang Su