Package: release-notes Followup-For: Bug #1033065 X-Debbugs-Cc: 1005...@bugs.debian.org Control: affects 1005863 net-tools Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> While a kernel compiled for Geode LX (essentially a basic i686 without the > optional CPU features) still ships in Debian, many packages enforce CPU flags > that barf on anything older than 686-PAE. Possibly a naive question: could you provide a command/script to check input binaries (such as those in the i386 archive) to see whether they are likely to be affected by this? (my thinking there is: if that flags a small _number_ of packages then individual patches could make sense while we await upstream activity. conversely, if it's a high _percentage_ of packages, then there is an important decision to make) I don't have a sense for what proportion of Debian's i386 installs could be on Geode systems, but i386 is our second-most-widely deployed architecture (between amd64 and arm64) today according to popcon.
