Hi Guillem! On Tue, 2023-09-12 at 22:34 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > In order to be able to add loong64-specific changes to source packages, > > the dpkg version on the infrastructure servers, in particular DAK, > > needs to be able to recognize loong64 in d/control. > > > Since the servers are running oldstable and stable and loong64 support > > was only added to dpkg 1.22.0, > > This was introduced in dpkg 1.21.10, reverted in 1.21.19 and reintroduced > in 1.21.21, but that was after the 1.22.x series had already been branched > (so it got cherry picked from git main at the time, and that's why it > looked like it got introduced only in 1.22.0).
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. > > I would like to ask for loong64 to be backported to the dpkg version > > in oldstable and stable. > > I guess I could backport it to dpkg 1.20.x for oldstable, but if the > infra servers are going to be upgraded soon (at least out of oldstable > to stable), then perhaps there's no point in bothering the release-team > with this? >From the discussions on #debian-devel it seemed that the servers are not going to be upgraded anytime soon, so having this patch backported to oldstable would definitely help speed things up. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
