Hi! On Fri, 2023-10-27 at 20:17:21 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 02:29:30PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Are either of those ports (armeb/arm64ilp32) actually useful / alive > > at this point? > > Not that I have seen. I didn't think anything other than the IXP ever > really used big endian and that's a long time ago. arm64ilp32 seems > to serve less purpose than x32 did (and x32 doesn't seem to be doing > much either). Certainly looks essentially dead at this point.
While scanning the libc-alpha list recently I read [M] that arm64ilp32 was never upstreamed in Linux nor glibc? If so, I think there's little point in carrying the arch definitions in dpkg, and I guess that would not make the cut if requested now (for reference this was requested in bug #824742). Does anyone know whether it was ever used or it is being used even if privately/internally somewhere? I'd think that could be a good argument to make an exception, and keep this for a while still. I see no usage of this arch in Debian Sources files for example, so it'd seem safe to remove the arch definition in the Debian context. [M] <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2023-November/152521.html> For armeb, I assume it was properly upstreamed at the time, and it was actually used, even if it's currently not in use (like arm) I see tons of references in Sources files, and thus removing the arch definitions for either of these would not be safe right now I think. Thanks, Guillem
