Bug#922728: arch-test: reports armel invalid on arm64 system

[Edmund Grimley Evans]

I have observed a similar situation: my armel chroot seems to work all
right, but arch-test does not list "armel" as working. In my case,
SWPB is causing a SIGILL. It seems that a lot of armel binaries don't
use SWPB, but perhaps SWPB (and SWP) are still "officially" required
for armel? Who knows?

Bug#922728: arch-test: reports armel invalid on arm64 system

[Vagrant Cascadian]

Package: arch-test
Version: 0.15-1
Severity: normal
Control: affects -1 debootstrap

On my pinebook, arch-test displays:

  $ arch-test
  arm64
  armhf

Which prevents running debootstrap --arch=armel.

With arch-test removed, debootstrap is able to run fine, and I'm able
to use the chroot without difficulty.

There definitely are arm64 systems which cannot run armel binaries,
but this one at least appears to support running armel binaries.


live well,
  vagrant

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (120, 'unstable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)

Kernel: Linux 4.20.0-trunk-arm64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

-- no debconf information


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