On 2026-06-10 06:38:03 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2026-06-05 20:13, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > A small status update.
> >
> > On 2026-04-28 18:47, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On 2026-04-28 10:22, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > On 2025-12-29 13:12:48 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Linux 6.19 will drop support for 31-bit compatibility on s390x, and
> > > > > will
> > > > > also stop providing 31-bit support in UAPI header files [1]. Once
> > > > > this
> > > > > lands in unstable, it will become impossible to build the libc6-s390
> > > > > and
> > > > > libc6-dev-s390 packages on s390x. We should therefore stop building
> > > > > these packages, as well as g++-15-multilib and the corresponding
> > > > > lib32*
> > > > > libraries.
> > > > >
> > > > > Doing so will break many packages. I therefore suggest that, over the
> > > > > next few weeks, we start removing 31-bit support in all packages
> > > > > except
> > > > > src:gcc-15, src:gcc-defaults, src:glibc, src:linux and src:zlib (and
> > > > > possibly the corresponding cross compilers?). Then in a final
> > > > > coordinated step, we can fully drop 31-bit support from those
> > > > > remaining
> > > > > packages as well.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any thoughts about that? Volunteers to coordinate this?
> > > >
> > > > If I am reading dak output correctly, we are down to gcc-11, gcc-13,
> > > > gcc-14, gcc-15, zlib, and glibc itself. So assuming that I didn't miss
> > > > anything, are we there to also drop the support from these packages?
> > >
> > > These packages have already been fixed, but they are kept as cruft in
> > > sid (but not in forky). I have not investigated why, it could just be
> > > that dak is not smart enough.
> >
> > All the cross packages got removed. gcc-1[1-4] also got removed.
> >
> > > In addition llvm-toolchain-{14,19,20} are still waiting for a fix [1],
> > > but they are only in sid or experimental.
> >
> > llvm-toolchain-14 is also gone, for all architectures.
> >
> > For dependencies, we are left with only gcc-15, gcc-defaults, zlib and
> > glibc, I'll work on filling the corresponding bugs against
> > ftp.debian.org as the next step.
>
> This is now done. A bit thanks to Thorsten Alteholz for handling all the
> removal request. This means we do not have 31-bit s390 binaries anymore
> in testing or unstable \o/.
>
> Release team members, I guess that with done, the "s390-31-bit-rm"
> transition can be remove from the tracker.
Thanks for driving this removal. I have removed the trackers.
Cheers
--
Sebastian Ramacher
