On Fri, 2025-06-13 at 17:15 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote:
Wouldn't next upgrade completely break user's Debian system so it needs
complete re-install?
You would need to extract the glibc package manually from my tests. After that,
upgrading the system should be possible.
If true, would separate m68k arch for 4-byte alignment be out of
question, similarly how there have been different ARM arch variants?
Creating a separate arch would mean patching various parts of Debian which
again would involve a lot of work which I don't think is worth the effort.
I don't think the userbase is large enough to warrant all that work.
PS. I was peripherally involved in the ARM VFP thing, in a Debian
derivative that switched to use VFP before Debian did. So I know a bit
how big thing such transition is, even with the Debian cross-compiling &
boot-strapping support being much better now...
That's why I want to make a hard cut and not invest months of work when the
userbase consists of just a few people.