On Sun, 1 Jun 2025 10:39:49 +0200 Helmut Grohne <[email protected]> wrote: > Source: xserver-xorg-video-geode > Version: 2.18.1-6 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > User: [email protected] > Usertags: cross-satisfiability > > Hi, > > we would like to get rid of the gcc-multilib package. That goes in hand > with removing support for -m32. For this package, I am questioning the > usefulness of a multilib build. The emitted shared objects need to be > loaded into an Xorg server and necessarily that server has to be 32bit. > I hope I'm not missing something here, but then you already need to > enable i386 as a foreign (or native) architecture and can very well just > install the xserver-xorg-video-geode:i386 package. Thus the benefit of > having a xserver-xorg-video-geode:amd64 or :x32 package is not > substantial while at the same time it prevents us from removing > gcc-multilib and libc6-i386. Do you agree with this reasoning? If yes, > please consider applying the attached patch.
This package indeed only makes sense on 32-bit x86 hardware. I've only enabled 64-bit because it was often requested due to CI only implementing 64-bit pipelines both upstream and on Salsa. Because of this, upstream has put in a LOT of effort towards making the source code more generic so that it could build on amd64 in addition to i386. In principle, I could remove the Build-Depends on gcc-multilib, but the package would again become untestable on Salsa CI. Martin-Éric
