Debian’s MIPS64EL that is a 64-bit little endian port using the N64 ABI is at risk due to declining access for building the Debian 64-bit MIPS packages. MIPS64EL is now being treated as an “out of sync” architecture due to lacking sufficient build daemon resources for timely building new packages and if the situation doesn’t improve, it may not be suitable as a release architecture for Debian 13 “Trixie”.
Not all architectures last forever, and as time goes on, more and more of these once promising architectures will simply no longer be part of the modern Linux world. It makes sense – but it’s still sad.
Oh well, there’s always NetBSD!
https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbmips/
It might be useful if Debian developed a cross-build architecture, like NetBSD.
NetBSD’s is extensive. If you want to build a Dreamcast-compatible system using Cygwin on Windows, go ahead. It even has built-in Canadian Cross support.
I understand nostalgia or thinking (basically) dead architectures & software `is cool`, but purging is healthy and will not cause the fall of civilization. I’m not a fan of using finite resources in efforts to cling to the past.