On Wed, 21 May 2025, John Klos wrote:
> >> Your argument is that ABI breakage is death, and that projects and > >> the world are better when we tell people to fix their broken code. > > > > No, that's not what I said. > > You literally wrote, "But, if it's not already dead, you will kill > Debian/m68k if you break the ABI contract." > IMO, if a GNU/Linux distro abandons the upstream ABI, it will die. IMO, if the upstream maintainers scrap the ABI so that porters can more easily port irrelevant packages, then the project loses credibility and ABI fragmentation will follow. IMO, if the ABI is allowed to fragment, collaboration ceases, and the project dies. IMO, if there's no unqiue characteristic to differentiate one port from another, one of them will die. > > > > Once the ABI fragments, there is no "Linux/m68k" any longer. There are > > isolated groups of users/developers with limited ability to > > collaborate effectively. > > So what do you suppose will happen when the time changes are made? > It depends on what kind of changes take place. I have not looked into this. I need to do some research.
