On Tue, 2025-05-20 at 07:59 +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 2025, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > > My argument is that Linux/m68k is a pure hobbyist project and anyone > > involved can deal with the changes coming from the alignment change. > > > > If hobbyists can deal with ABI breakage, they can certainly deal with the > longstanding lack of fancy toolchains and toolkits*.
Being able to build the build dependencies of cmake or parts of GCC such as gccgo is not something I would consider "fancy". Furthermore, more and more packages are being ported to Rust which means m68k will either die a long death or have to switch to 4 bytes alignment. > But you're being presumtuous. Your hobby may be the porting of fancy > toolchains. It's not mine! I am not asking you as you're not involved in maintaining Debian/m68k. > There's no such thing as a "pure hobbyist" Linux port. This is a > collaborative effort. Debian/m68k needs corporations just as RHEL needs > volunteers. Can you point me to anyone else who is involved in Debian/m68k except me? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
