Re: W: armhf version for thunderbird bullseye

[Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@t-online.de>]

Hello Adrian, hello Tuxo,

Am 06.10.21 um 17:06 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
> Hello!
>
> On 10/6/21 16:38, Tuxo wrote:
> > Is there a thunderbird version for armhf in one of the debian repositories?
> >
> > checking [1] and [2] they mention armhf versions of tb 78 for Buster and Stretch, none for Bullseye so far.
>
> Carsten Schoenert has disabled the 32-bit ARM builds of Thunderbird, see [1].
>
> I have no clue why that happened as there is no mention of that change in debian/changelog,
> but I assume it's because Mozilla upstream broke support on these targets.

the removal of the architectures in question did happen in preparation 
for 1:68.2.1-1

---%<---
> thunderbird (1:68.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
> ...
>   * [8f89b90] d/control: decrease build architecture list 
>     Decreasing the current list of build architectures. Not meant to keep this 
>     forever, removed RC architectures needing support and volunteering to get
>     them back.
>     (Closes: #921258)
>
>  -- Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@t-online.de>  Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:36:59 +0100
--->%---

The commit in detail

https://salsa.debian.org/mozilla-team/thunderbird/-/commit/8f89b90f1054645f7f92d985bc747410123c38c2


> It's unfortunately a big of cat and mouse with fixing all these regular regressions on
> architectures that Mozilla doesn't care about. We would need more people working on
> these.

That's the nail, I'm unable to support all the possible architectures so 
I need to concentrate on the most important architectures. arm{el,hf} 
but also mipsel isn't that important in my eyes as usage of Thunderbird 
on such systems is more a proof of a possibility.

--
Regards
Carsten