Le Tue, Nov 03, 2026 at 04:51:15PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit :
If Debian just continues this trend of disabling architectures so quickly, we will soon end up with a distribution that is supported on x86_64 and AArch64 only and I'm really not sure whether this is something we want.
Hi Adrian and everybody, I would like to add that we are also in a much better position to re-enable package building much quicker than before. Thanks to the ability to create architecture support classes, like I did with r-pkg-team-core-architecture, we can enable developers to set up an environment bypassing the restriction without having to modify the packages, make a local mass-rebuild, draw conclusions, sort out what goes upstream and what does not, solve the problems, and then propose a coordinated effort. Another way to ease architecture maintenance would be to improve our patching workflow, so that the burden of maintaining and updating architecture-specific patches is not on the package maintainer. Ideally, this improvement should reduce the overall workload rather than just shifting the burden. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscience.org/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy
