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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,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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