Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements
On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 10:20 PM Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> wrote:
> On 05-06-2023 04:38, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> >>> On a related issue, something in dpkg or apt should check the CPU
> >>> features and refuse to perform an upgrade/dist-upgrade on an host
> >>> whose CPU doesn't meet the new baseline requirements.
> >>
> >> Please file a bug with the respective packages. Mentioning it in a bug
> >> against the release notes isn't going to achieve that feature.
> >
> > Oh, totally. I'm just not sure of which one typically handles this.
> > Last time the baseline was raised from 586 to 686 (before that from
> > 486 to 586), something in the upgrade process performed the CPU check
> > and loudly aborted the proceedings. Something similar was done when
> > the baseline was raised on SPARC ages ago; upgrade aborted early if
> > the host hardware didn't meet the new baseline.
>
> I wasn't aware of that. I *think* dpkg just installs what apt feeds it,
> so from those two, I'd guess apt. However, it's too late for bookworm to
> add that now. I thought you meant this mostly as a future enhancement.
Then the baseline will have to remain at 686 WITHOUT NOPL for Bookworm.
Sorry, but a baseline bump really has to be better planned and better
documented than this. Merely deciding to update the release notes at
the last minute because everyone is too lazy to fix the 20% of
packages or so that --configure NOPL or some more recent flag really
won't do.
Martin-Éric
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