Adding loong architecture to dpkg
Hi!
I think most parts are ready now upstream, for Debian AFAIUI the
missing piece is a newer glibc currently sitting in experimental.
If you want to get this added, it would be nice to do so before the
Debian release freeze, or you'll not be able to later add some of the
support to other packages or infrastructure in Debian if the version
of dpkg in Debian stable does not support it too. (I mean we can
always add it in a stable update, but I'd rather avoid it.)
For dpkg the usual procedure to add it is described here:
<https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ#Q._Can_we_add_support_for_new_dpkg_architectures.3F>
So we'd need to make clear what ABI this is going to describe, etc.
And then agree on the arch name. My main concern as I've pointed out
elsewhere at least in [D] and [L] is the "arch" part in the name,
similar to other distributions such as Gentoo (AFAIR). Depending on
whether you'd want also an 32-bit arch, we might want to suffix with
64, etc.
[D] https://github.com/guillemj/dpkg/pull/6
[L] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=989125#15
Thanks,
Guillem
Reply to: