On 2018-11-23, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: > Why is it OK to break them on arm64 if it's not OK to break them on > amd64? Do you have a list of those packages?
Because most people on arm64 don't have the hardware. Rather give them fewer packages that works great rather than many packages that doesn't really work. For each arch the Qt maintainers have the choice 1) gles 2) desktop gl if 1) is chosen, then that exposes one set of api (&abi). If 2) is chosen it is a different one. In debian, currently desktop gl is chosen on purpose on typical desktop architectures (e.g. amd64 and i386), and gles is chosen on purpose on armel and armhf. On other archs, desktopgl has just been what has been defaulted to. Not specifically putting arm64 in the bucket with armel and armhf is a bug, and one that we should fix. Yes. Some packages will need to be removed. And a few users will get burned by that. But hopefully even more users will be happier. /Sune
