On Fri, 2025-06-13 at 17:15 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: > Wouldn't next upgrade completely break user's Debian system so it needs > complete re-install?
You would need to extract the glibc package manually from my tests. After that, upgrading the system should be possible. > If true, would separate m68k arch for 4-byte alignment be out of > question, similarly how there have been different ARM arch variants? Creating a separate arch would mean patching various parts of Debian which again would involve a lot of work which I don't think is worth the effort. I don't think the userbase is large enough to warrant all that work. > PS. I was peripherally involved in the ARM VFP thing, in a Debian > derivative that switched to use VFP before Debian did. So I know a bit > how big thing such transition is, even with the Debian cross-compiling & > boot-strapping support being much better now... That's why I want to make a hard cut and not invest months of work when the userbase consists of just a few people. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
