Re: future of the libc6.1-alphaev67 package

2021-08-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 8/24/21 10:59 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > With the removal of the libc6-xen package in glibc 2.32, the only > package still using the hwcap infrastructure is libc6.1-alphaev67. The > hwcap infrastructure consists in upstream support for looking for > libraries in the hwcap directories,

Re: future of the libc6.1-alphaev67 package

2021-08-24 Thread Michael Cree
On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 10:59:32PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > I would therefore like to discuss the future of the libc6.1-alphaev67 > package on alpha. According to popcon, to take with a grain of salt > given the low number of submissions, this package is installed on 20% of > the installation

future of the libc6.1-alphaev67 package

2021-08-24 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Dear alpha porters, With the removal of the libc6-xen package in glibc 2.32, the only package still using the hwcap infrastructure is libc6.1-alphaev67. The hwcap infrastructure consists in upstream support for looking for libraries in the hwcap directories, plus Debian specific patches to suppor