Hi Paul, On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 01:06:08PM +0100, Paul Martin wrote: > Source: openafs > Version: 1.6.20-2+deb9u2 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch, ftbfs, stretch > > It would be nice if openafs were to be available on ARM64 architecture > in Debian Stretch and Ubuntu Bionic. > > The OpenStack Infrastructure project in particular would benefit from > this package suite being available.
Thanks for the report (and patch). I think I remember it being a conscious decision around the time of upstream's 1.8.0 to only bring arm64 support into Debian alongside 1.8.0 (i.e., for buster), and I thought that's because upstream had needed more changes than just the sort you have in these patches. But presumably your systems are working with just the posted patches, so I'll try to take a closer look at what actually happened with upstream and refresh my memory of the situation. That said, I don't know how the SRMs feel about this sort of change. Did you consider using a backported 1.8.2-1 from buster? (I don't have much time for working on the Ubuntu packaging; https://launchpad.net/~openafs/+archive/ubuntu/stable?field.series_filter=zesty may be an option for you there.) -Ben
