Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements
On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 12:05:24PM +0000, James Addison wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:31:37 +0800, pabs wrote:
> > Perhaps lintian could add classification tags for the relevant CPU
> > instructions and then the i386 port could have extra autopkgtest nodes
> > that only process the packages detected by lintian.
>
> That's not a bad idea. Are there any reasons that that might _not_ be a good
> idea before filing a wishlist bug? (performance, implications of scanning
> binary packages, ...)
This seems logistically problematic.
Is lintian actually ran on i386 binaries anymore ?
lintian.debian.org only lists reports for amd64 packages.
I am not sure it is worth the trouble, frankly. I do not see what this would
bring us.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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