Hi, On 26/10/25 at 13:21 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > Hi > > We never did a real discussion about architecture baselines before, but I > think > we should do that. We also don't have any guidelines what we as Debian want > to > actually support. But given that we are a general purpose distribution, we > have to find a balance.
This thread only discusses bumping baselines, but I wonder if we should consider other ways to provide architecture-optimized versions of some packages? https://wiki.debian.org/InstructionSelection lists some, including glibc's hwcaps. Also Canonical/Ubuntu decided to enable architecture variants in dpkg and APT since Ubuntu 2025.10. See: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-architecture-variants-amd64v3-now-available-in-ubuntu-25-10/71312 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1118567 https://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureVariants https://lwn.net/Articles/1044383/ Lucas
