Re: Tuple and changes for m68k with -malign-int
On Tue, 2025-05-20 at 11:39 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 22:51 +0100, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> > For what it's worth, while Adrian and I are largely aligned (haha) on this
> > change, myself and others in Gentoo do intend to use a new tuple. The current
> > plan is to do this at the same time as time64, which we believe also requires
> > new tuples, despite Debian sticking the same ones there as well. We are aware
> > that other projects will require adjusting, but we'll just deal with it.
>
> But what's the point for doing this? Are you worried that the three users of the
> port are going to have to reinstall their systems? Does this really justify carrying
> patches for many other packages?
Obviously, time64 affects a lot more than just m68k, and if we're doing it for
that, then we might as well do it for -malign-int at the same time. I wasn't
really involved in the decision, but I think it's because Gentoo is a rolling
source-based distro, so ideally we need a way for users to migrate their
existing systems.
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