If you work for a company, I'm sure you could find a contractor familiar with Debian who could create a proposed set of patches to make e2fsprogs full multiarch. However, it might be cheaper for your company to either (a) just purchase a AMD64 build server, or (b) use a ARM64 Cloud VM from Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Engine, or Micrsoft Azure (disclosure: I work for Google, but my opinions here are my own and not Google).
Alternatively, (c) I would encourage that you take a look at my build chroot script[1]. [1] https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/setup-buildchroot Once it's set up it';s just a matter of "schroot -c bookworm-arm64 -- build-command". Changing the built-chroot to use an Unbuntu version such as Jammy instead of Bookworm or Trixie is pretty simple. Once it's built, you could then run "schroot-c bookworm-arm64 -u root" and then you could run "apt update; apt install package1 package2 ..." Or you could edit set of packages in the setup-buildchroot script. If you want to see an example of how I use the build chroot, see the "build-appliance" script[2], and how I actualy do a release is to run the command "./selftests/appliance" script[3]. The selftest script builds test appliances for i386, amd64, and arm64 for use with qemu, and it also build Google Compute Engine test appliances images for amd64 and arm64, and runs selftests to make sure the appliance works correctly. This is how I create the test applince images found here[4]. [2] https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/build-appliance [3] https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/selftests/appliance [4] https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/kvm-xfstests/ My build runs taks a bit over an hour for arm64 and 20 minutes for amd64. So even though I'm running the compiler under qemu, it really doesn't take that long. And again, hardware is cheap; software engineers are expensive. My build server is a Dell AMD server with 64 GiB memory, and 48 AMD Threadripper cores. It costs less than $7k in May 2025. Now figure out how much hiring a contractor would cost (and it won't be me; Google keeps me busy enough as it is --- but even if I were on the market as a contractor, I'd likely tell you that buying hardware would be cheaper; you can get a 128-core ARM64 workstation for under $2700). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Debcrafters packages, which is subscribed to e2fsprogs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2117696 Title: libext2fs-dev installation of ARM64 version in parallel to AMD64 not possible Status in e2fsprogs package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I need to build software for both AMD and ARM on one system (build-server) Therefore i want to install the libext2fs-dev:amd64 and libext2fs-dev:arm64 in parallel. Via apt install this doesn't work - it always wants to uninstall the other package sudo apt install libext2fs-dev:arm64 ... The following packages will be REMOVED: libext2fs-dev I also cannot use e.g. libarchive-dev:arm64, because it depends on libext2fs-dev Diff of the data in the two packages (libext2fs- dev_1.47.0-2.4~exp1ubuntu4.1_amd64.deb vs libext2fs- dev_1.47.0-2.4~exp1ubuntu4.1_arm64.deb) shows no reason for this: (headers are the same, binaries are in architecture-specific folders) sudo diff --brief -sr ext2fs-dev-amd64/data ext2fs-dev-arm64/data Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/e2p/e2p.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/e2p/e2p.h are identical Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/bitops.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/bitops.h are identical Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_err.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_err.h are identical Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_ext_attr.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_ext_attr.h are identical Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h are identical Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2fs.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2fs.h are identical Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_io.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_io.h are identical Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_types.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_types.h are identical Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext3_extents.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/ext3_extents.h are identical Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/hashmap.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/hashmap.h are identical Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/qcow2.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/qcow2.h are identical Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/tdb.h and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/include/ext2fs/tdb.h are identical Only in ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/lib: aarch64-linux-gnu Only in ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/lib: x86_64-linux-gnu Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/share/doc/libext2fs2/html-info/libext2fs.html and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/share/doc/libext2fs2/html-info/libext2fs.html are identical Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/share/doc/libext2fs2/libext2fs.texi.gz and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/share/doc/libext2fs2/libext2fs.texi.gz are identical ... Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/share/doc/libext2fs-dev/copyright and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/share/doc/libext2fs-dev/copyright are identical Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/share/doc-base/libext2fs-dev.libext2fs and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/share/doc-base/libext2fs-dev.libext2fs are identical Files ext2fs-dev-amd64/data/usr/share/info/libext2fs.info.gz and ext2fs-dev-arm64/data/usr/share/info/libext2fs.info.gz are identical Thank you! ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04 Package: libext2fs-dev 1.47.0-2.4~exp1ubuntu4.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.14.0-24.24~24.04.3-generic 6.14.6 Uname: Linux 6.14.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.8 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Wed Jul 23 13:30:07 2025 InstallationDate: Installed on 2025-07-23 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 (20250215) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PATH=(custom, no user) SHELL=/bin/bash XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks. 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