Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-10-04 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, Matthias Klose wrote: > question to the Hurd and KFreeBSD maintainers ... change that on > these platforms too? I have a fanatical preference for compatibility over performance. So I prefer not to lose support for 586, but I don't know how practical it would be for libc maintainers to do

Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-10-04 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Söndag den 4:e october 2015, klockan 11:55, skrev Steven Chamberlain: > > I have a fanatical preference for compatibility over performance. So > I prefer not to lose support for 586, but I don't know how practical > it would be for libc maintainers to do that only for kfreebsd. > >

Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-10-04 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2015-10-01 at 19:15:54 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > question to the Hurd and KFreeBSD maintainers ... change that on these > platforms too? As it currently stands, this is not a question when it comes to dpkg, that specific change is all or nothing. The Debian ←→ GNU cpu mapping is

Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-10-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Matthias Klose, le Thu 01 Oct 2015 19:15:54 +0200, a écrit : > question to the Hurd and KFreeBSD maintainers ... change that on these > platforms too? I don't see a reason not to. i686 libc works fine on hurd-i386 at least. I haven't tried on kfreebsd. Samuel

Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-10-01 Thread Matthias Klose
question to the Hurd and KFreeBSD maintainers ... change that on these platforms too? On 28.09.2015 23:14, Ben Hutchings wrote: We propose to drop support for i386 processors older than 686-class in the current release cycle. This would include folding libc6-i686 into libc6, changing the