From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1fnPRg-0004k9-1o for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:28:16 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59024) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnOvH-00053d-LD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:54:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnOvH-0000uf-0e for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:54:47 -0400 Received: from rock.gnat.com ([2620:20:4000:0:a9e:1ff:fe9b:1d1]:33084) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnOvG-0000u6-Ks for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:54:46 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6781C116600; Wed, 8 Aug 2018 09:54:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id iek+vNZvnNLb; Wed, 8 Aug 2018 09:54:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 263D91165E8; Wed, 8 Aug 2018 09:54:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4F85382C91; Wed, 8 Aug 2018 06:54:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 06:54:43 -0700 From: Joel Brobecker To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Alan Modra , binutils@sourceware.org, The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc Message-ID: <20180808135443.GJ2432@adacore.com> References: <2d2f1c2a-1715-1348-c35a-ad562a3acbb2@physik.fu-berlin.de> <27449274-9250-97a3-1ff9-8b9c818659d4@physik.fu-berlin.de> <20180808015529.GP26457@bubble.grove.modra.org> <20180808131659.GA1544@bubble.grove.modra.org> <643f686e-d568-978d-07ab-31a62336966f@physik.fu-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <643f686e-d568-978d-07ab-31a62336966f@physik.fu-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 2620:20:4000:0:a9e:1ff:fe9b:1d1 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:28:14 -0400 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:54:48 -0000 > > It's not a matter of reworking the code. No one wants to work on it > > at all! At least, judging by the number of people actively > > maintaining most of binutils, that seems to be the case. Are *you* > > interested in maintaining sparc-aout or sparc-coff? There are sparc > > bug reports dating back to 2004 that no one has analyzed! > > Again, this isn't fair. You cannot expect having to step up as a maintainer > just because they are users of some code. Not every user has to step up, but someone has to step up. Someone has to take care of the code, and using the fair-unfair approach, it would not be fair to ask existing maintainers to maintain a target they are not interested in either. -- Joel