On 2023-06-07 at 03:19, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2023-06-07, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote: > >> On Tue, 2023-06-06 at 09:33 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: >> >>> I've been reading the discussion around i386 a bit and found the >>> direction it has taken a little unproductive. >> >> I note that there are a number of packages available on i386 but not >> available on amd64, is anyone planning on an MBF about this issue? > > I got curious. Some of them are hurd specific. Others are a i386 > specific version, either for fewer processor capabilities or just a > specific one, like sigend bootloader packages and such. Lets remove > those and see what we have left. > > oh. and a few are miscategorized. And some binary-only non-free. > snes emulator. last upstream release 2007 >> zsnes deb otherosfs optional arch=any-i386 FWIW: though I haven't touched it in quite some while, I recall from all those years ago that the reason zsnes is i386-only is that part of its code is hand-written assembly language for (some variant of) that architecture, and that rewriting it for that not to be the case would be at best impractical. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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