+++ Michael Cree [2013-09-13 20:29 +1200]: > I'm not a DD, thus am no authority on these matters, nevertheless it > would surprise me to see an armv6 port being permitted on Debian-Ports > with the arch name 'armhf'.
Well, it's just a matter of whether it's actually a sensible plan or not, and mostly a matter of enough people undertaking to look after the packages and build failures. It would be better if we had a 'hwcaps' field to distinguish what binaries were built for, but without it people just need to be told which repos to use, which is the current situation with raspbian/debian armhf and ubuntu/debian armel (prior to 12.10). > > I seem to recall seeing some discussion recently about whether it might be > feasible to build armel on armhf hardware (thus solving the problem of speed > and needing oodles of memory for some specific builds) and then rerun the > test suites on actual armel hardware. I can't remember what the outcome of > the discussion was. There is no such thing as 'armhf' (or 'armel') hardware. Anything that can run one ABI can also run the other. I guess you are talking about armel chroots on machines with an armhf base system installed (or vice versa). That works fine SFAIK. > So, it seems to me that your requirement that the arch is called 'armhf' > means that it is unlikely an armv6 port would be hosted on debian-ports, As explained, the only issue I am aware of is potential user confusion, and having a mechanism to get the toolchain defaults right. dpkg-vendor would do this and is OK with the GCC maintainer. So long as each buildd is correctly set this should work fine. I think debian-ports capacity is more of an issue. It's full and in need to migrating to more conventional Debian hosting. I believe this is planned but I don't know when it's actually likely to happen. > But if I surmise incorrectly, and it is decided to host a build for armv6 > on Debian-Ports, then my offer to host and run a buildd (or two) stands. Cool. The rules for offical buildds are strict - I'm not sure about unoffical ones if debian-ports itself gets migrated to more 'official' status. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130913230400.gt1...@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk
