On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:58:32 -0800, Mike Thompson wrote: Preface: Please don't top-post. Disclaimer: I'm reading this mail because it was CC'd to the libipc-sharelite-perl maintainers; if there's something we can/should do: fine. Besides that I have not much knowledge about architecture specific stuff. > As armhf really describes the ABI rather than the underlying CPU > architecture, it would make our jobs with Raspbian much easier if CPU > architecture dependent packages could test that the architecture is indeed > Armv7+ and not blindly assume armhf implicitly means the system is running > on an Armv7+ architecture. It's unfortunate that a handful of packages make > this assumption and adding more to the mix doesn't help. Can this test be expressed in some easy terms to be used in debian/rules? > Ideally, I would love to see Raspbian folded back into the Debian Project, Oh, yes, that would be nice -- running a proper Debian instead of the (AFAICS well-made) almost-Debian Raspbian would be cool. > but I realize this won't happen for a variety of reasons. Therefore, it > would be useful if at least those working on armhf packages Well, those are all maintainers of all 20.000 (?) source packages in Debian :) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Kurt Ostbahn & Kombo: Liegn oda knian
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