On 6/2/19 3:24 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:

No one on the core team has the hardware to test it AFAIK.

The gcc compile farm has porterboxes for which any open source developer
can request access to. So, you can at least test on the architectures available there.

We might add an ia64 box there in the future, but for the time being I'm happy to create an account on an ia64 porterbox for anyone who needs access to it.

ia64 is no longer an official Debian architecture, what means that
issues on ia64 are not considered blockers for a Debian release. As the Debian ruby maintainer, I no longer care about ia64 myself.

However, there is still a group of porters who do care about it, and as
long as they are testing it and providing me patches, I'm happy to apply them. In fact, I have just made a new upload to Debian that applies an ia64-specific patch.

ia64 is also still maintained in Gentoo (CC slyfox).

Adrian

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Hello Samuel, thanks for getting in touch.

On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 07:37:10PM +1200, Samuel Williams wrote:

Hi,

I’m maintaining some assembly level features for MRI (Ruby) and I’m thinking about dropping support for IA64.

No one on the core team has the hardware to test it AFAIK.

I invite you to comment here: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15894 <https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15894>

Kind regards,
Samuel

ia64 is no longer an official Debian architecture, what means that
issues on ia64 are not considered blockers for a Debian release. As the
Debian ruby maintainer, I no longer care about ia64 myself.

However, there is still a group of porters who do care about it, and as
long as they are testing it and providing me patches, I'm happy to apply
them. In fact, I have just made a new upload to Debian that applies an ia64-specific patch.

ia64 porter team, you probably want to comment on the issue that Samuel
linked to:

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15894

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