Hi Geert, On Tue, 2025-05-20 at 11:58 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > interested in new, "fancy" packages, just don't upgrade or install Debian > > Etch or similar. Changing the default alignment does not affect existing > > software. > > What about existing software that is aware the minimum alignment is > 2-bytes on m68k?
I just remembered that I actually asked the NetBSD people about that and they said that they didn't run into any problems. In fact, here is a directory with more than 5500 packages built for NetBSD/m68k with 4 bytes alignment: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/m68k/10.0_2024Q3/All/ So, I think we're safe in this regard. There are certainly going to be a few cases where packages may need to be patched. But I would assume these to be rather rare. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
