Re: architecture qualification season
On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 09:53:49PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
>...
> 3) In the current state, I think it boils down to the question if armel
> and mipsel should be dropped for bullseye or not. What do we think
> ourselves? Myself, I've been regularly cursing mipsel for it being so
> much slower to build packages than most architectures, but I don't think
> that's enough ;). Also, the limited address space of 32 bit
> architectures is lowest on mipsel and it is starting to count. I've seen
> several issues due to it (e.g. rustc), meaning that maintainers of some
> large packages need to spend serious effort to build their package on
> mipsel. I feel that several maintainers seriously doubt that effort is
> well spent.
s390x is the last big endian release architecture.
Most address space problems can be workarounded with a few basic tricks,
endian porting is always manual work.
Usually upstream does not have access to big endian hardware.
Additionally the server-only nature of the port is a problem,
I could e.g. imagine that the GNOME maintainers might not miss s390x.
s390x does not have (m)any users who would report bugs early.
If something is broken on armel in unstable plenty of users
report bugs, I don't see bugs in the BTS from normal s390x users.
Any discussion about dropping architectures for bullseye would be
incomplete if dropping s390x is not on the agenda.
> Paul
>...
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Adrian
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