Bug#1016957: kbd-chooser: please add support for riscv64

[Bo YU]

Source: kbd-chooser
Version: 1.71
Severity: wishlist
Tags: ftbfs, patch
User: debian-***@lists.debian.org
Usertags: riscv64
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-***@lists.debian.org

Dear kbd-chooser Maintainer,

The kbd-chooser package can be built on real riscv64 hardware
successfully and it is ok to run autopkgtest also. Could you please add
support for riscv64?

The MR is here:
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/kbd-chooser/-/merge_requests/2

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Post by Bo YU
The kbd-chooser package can be built on real riscv64 hardware
successfully and it is ok to run autopkgtest also. Could you please add
support for riscv64?

kbd-chooser is no longer in use, I think.
Or am I missing something?

Holger

[Bo YU]

Hi,

Post by Holger Wansing
Hi,

Post by Bo YU
The kbd-chooser package can be built on real riscv64 hardware
successfully and it is ok to run autopkgtest also. Could you please add
support for riscv64?

kbd-chooser is no longer in use, I think.
Or am I missing something?

Ok, thanks for letting me know that, I will close it then later.

[Bastian Germann]

Control: severity -1 serious

Post by Holger Wansing
kbd-chooser is no longer in use, I think.
Or am I missing something?

I am raising severity to serious then so that it can be autoremoved from testing.

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Bastian,

Post by Bastian Germann
Control: severity -1 serious

Can you please elaborate? I'm not seeing anything serious in this bug
report.

Post by Bastian Germann

Post by Holger Wansing
kbd-chooser is no longer in use, I think.
Or am I missing something?

I am raising severity to serious then so that it can be autoremoved from testing.

This package is a key package (because of debian-installer), so it can't
be autoremoved.

Paul

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Post by Paul Gevers
Hi Bastian,

Post by Bastian Germann
Control: severity -1 serious

Can you please elaborate? I'm not seeing anything serious in this bug
report.

I think Bastian's approach is, to remove kbd-chooser from the archive, since
it was stated (see below) that it's no longer in use.
d-i has switched away from it to console-setup 12 years ago with
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/commit/2575a669e91252a6253430020137154c995c9b38

Are there any ports maybe, that still use it somehow?
Or what about derivatives?
It's an udeb-only package, so the use in the installer is the only imaginable
scenario...

@installer-team: any comments?

Post by Paul Gevers

Post by Bastian Germann

Post by Holger Wansing
kbd-chooser is no longer in use, I think.
Or am I missing something?

I am raising severity to serious then so that it can be autoremoved from testing.

This package is a key package (because of debian-installer), so it can't
be autoremoved.

Holger

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

severity -1 serious

Bug #1016957 [src:kbd-chooser] kbd-chooser: please add support for riscv64
Severity set to 'serious' from 'wishlist'

[Cyril Brulebois]

If you're sure it's not used, I can work around udd and have it at least
removed from testing. I think a bug retitle (or separate bug) would have
been better. The current bug isn't RC.

If it's certain that package isn't used/useful anymore, the correct thing
to do is to have it removed from the archive, via unstable, sync'd into
testing. I don't see what a removal from testing only would achieve, esp.
for trumped-up reasons.


Cheers,

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Post by Cyril Brulebois

If you're sure it's not used, I can work around udd and have it at least
removed from testing. I think a bug retitle (or separate bug) would have
been better. The current bug isn't RC.

If it's certain that package isn't used/useful anymore, the correct thing
to do is to have it removed from the archive, via unstable, sync'd into
testing. I don't see what a removal from testing only would achieve, esp.
for trumped-up reasons.

kbd-chooser has now been requested to be removed from unstable.