Re: Bug#800729: dpkg-architecture: Please add support for hppa64

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Control: retitle -1 dpkg-architecture: Please add support for hppa64

Hi!

On Sat, 2015-10-03 at 02:36:40 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Package: dpkg-dev
> Version: 1.18.3
> Severity: wishlist

> I don't intend to do a new port, however the hppa kernel requires a
> hppa64 compiler.
> 
> $ dpkg-architecture -ahppa64
> dpkg-architecture: error: unknown Debian architecture hppa64, you must
> specify GNU system type, too
> 
> please could you add support to make this work? it will simplify the
> packaging of the toolchain.

To the hppa porters, is there prospects of such a port? Is the ABI of
such port stable (I'd assume yes)?

I'm also assuming the port would be big endian too? And the GNU triplet
is hppa64-linux-gnu?

Thanks,
Guillem