Re: git: 22d65534d960 - main - lang/gcc8: Update EXPIRATION_DATE

From: Lorenzo Salvadore <developer_at_lorenzosalvadore.it>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2023 15:59:50 UTC 
On Thursday, November 23rd, 2023 at 16:35, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:


> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 10:44:14PM +0000, Muhammad Moinur Rahman wrote:
> 
> > commit 22d65534d96087ad64279a3730ab50a19cfe9f6d
> > 
> > lang/gcc8: Update EXPIRATION_DATE
> > 
> > During the last commit the EXPIRATION_DATE was set to match the
> > EXPIRATION_DATE of the last consumer print/wkhtmltopdf however this
> > consumer has been updated to build with gcc10 hence reduce the
> > EXPIRATION_DATE to 2023-12-31.
> 
> 
> That might be a bit premature, quoting Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk:
> 
> # Possible values: 8 (last to support powerpcspe), 9, 10, 11, 12
> . if ${ARCH} == "powerpcspe"
> GCC_DEFAULT?= 8
> . else
> 
> ./danfe

According to https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ powerpcspe is a tier 2
platforms for us. Which according to
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/committers-guide/#_tier_2_developmental_and_niche_architectures
means that we guarantee basic support for ports.

GCC 8 has been unsupported upstream since long time.

Since neither GCC nor us actually fully support powerpcspe, I would say
on the contrary that it is about time that this port expires.

Of course Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk should be patched too however.

Cheers,

Lorenzo Salvadore