[FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2024-06-11 15:39:52 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > >> It is worth mentioning that even Debian hasn't supported Alpha (along
> > >> with several other architectures) since release 8.0 in June 2018.
> > >
> > >I think debian dropped alpha from the officially supported architectures
> > >but it seems there is still some inofficial support:
> > >https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/12.0/alpha/
> > 
> > To be precise, Alpha and HPPA were moved to Debian Ports in 2018 after they were dropped from the official archives. They have remained with only unstable support since then, which indicates that they are essentially moribund. Re-emerging from ports is infeasible for a purely legacy architecture.
> 
> I dont know what the file is but it says
> debian-12.0.0-alpha-NETINST-1.iso	2023-05-16 09:04
> 
> debian 12 is the latest release of debian AFAIK

That does not render alpha to be a release architecture of Debian or to
be part of Debian. It is only available on ports which means no stable
releases, no security support, nothing. Architectures moving to ports
never made it back as an official supported architecture (at least
during the last 10 years that I was involved with the project).

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher