Dimitri wrote: > Thus multiarch cross tooling is not so relevant for fresh bootstraps, > and/or targeting non-debian architectures, or otherwise incomplete > systems (e.g. those that do not have compatible set of pre-compiled > binaries that use multiarch-paths
I'll leave it to Helmut to talk about his existing work with bootstraps that's been stalled by reverting this patch. I can categorically say though that we are currently using a toolchain built this way on Jessie before it was broken by this change, both for embedded systems that do run Debian, and for microcontrollers that couldn't possibly run it (memory measured in kB, no MMU). It works just fine for all of those cases. The *only* problem we have at present is that we can no longer update the Jessie systems this was being done on, because our ability to do this was removed and there appears to be no actually working replacement for it. > Can we all settle and move these developments to experimental > targeting for stretch, instead? Nobody is suggesting that other options can't be, or shouldn't be, explored for post-Jessie. Restoring the functionality that existed before this was removed will not in any way prevent or hinder that, it just means we won't repeat the sad state of Wheezy where this became no longer possible at all. Nothing you said here explains why we can't have the best of both worlds with this. If having this working for Jessie is "not so relevant" to you, that's fine - but it's very relevant to quite a few other people and was working for them until a few weeks ago when support for it was simply removed. We have people prepared to do the work to keep it working. What we don't have is an explanation of what it actually broke, if anything, to warrant removing it, without comment or warning, at this late stage of the Jessie release. Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141122162145.gu29...@hex.shelbyville.oz
