Re: Removal of acorn26 port

[Justin Cormack <justin%specialbusservice.com@localhost>]

On 15 April 2015 at 21:20, Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost> wrote:
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>> On Apr 15, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Justin Cormack <justin%specialbusservice.com@localhost> wrote:
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>> On 15 April 2015 at 14:36, Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost> wrote:
>>> Unless someone can give a good reason to keep it, the acorn26 port will be removed in a week or two or three.  Along with the removal will be the cleanup of the common arm to remove the arm26 bits associated with it.
>>>
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>> I guess someone might say it is not in line with the process outlined
>> on https://www.netbsd.org/ports/
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> acorn26 build but has been suspected of being broken for years.  The last post
> to port-acorn26 was in 2011.

Yes, I am sure it qualifies to move to tier III, and has done for some
years. Procedurally, moving it officially to tier III and then
removing all support for it from the common code to make it even more
broken (it would then be removed from the build matrix), and then
deleting it in 6 months might be better than just deleting it now.

Justin