Latent bugs in armel, armhf packages built before t64 transition

2024-08-15 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Hi, while investigating a test failure in ksh93u+m, it became clear that packages last built before the time_t-64bit transition can have latent bugs. They might very well now FTBFS or fail at runtime (autopkgtest time or later). I believe FTBFS are bugs are probably caught by periodic rebuilds do

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 15-08-2024 20:35, Martin wrote: What would be the best way, esp. for people outside of Debian, to always know about such problems? And not only read about it, when it's already solved? Ideally bug affecting specific architectures should have the right usertags. I believe in this case t

Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-08-15 Thread Martin
On 2024-08-13 20:53, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > fakeroot, a notable key part of the infrastructure required to build > packages, FTBFS on armel and armhf since March, due to t64 changes > on these architectures. > > I think this is indicative of the developer interest in armel and > armhf and the

Re: [RFC} arm architecture board/feature deprecation timeline

2024-08-15 Thread Matt Turner
On 07/31, Arnd Bergmann wrote: === iWMMXt === I'm not aware of any remaining users for iWMMXt, and we dropped support for ARMv7 PJ4 CPUs (MMP2, Berlin) already, so the only supported hardware that even has this is Intel/Marvell PXA and MMP1. pixman had [1][2] iwMMXt paths that I optimized for