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 support disabling hwcap with the /etc/ld.so.nohwcap, plus some mechanism in the maintainer scripts to disable hwcap support until all libc6 packages are configured. The various optimized packages have been replaced with time by other mechanisms such as indirect function support (IFUNC), or runtime atomic selection in GCC (-moutline-atomics). 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 installations. I wonder if this package is really useful in terms of performance, or if the architecture baseline can be raised to ev67, or to a ev6 as a compromise. The goal is to stop building this package. Regards, Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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