Re: Please upgrade your machines to sparc64
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:30:14 +0200
> Thus, I don't think any of the objections brought up against the
> sparc64 port are valid. Neither is sparc64 64-bit only nor does
> anyone anyhow prevent you in Debian to mix packages from different
> architectures. In fact, Debian has by far the most flexible approach
> to resolve the 32-bit/64-bit problem by providing a generic approach
> for mixing libraries of different architectures.
I think what irks people the most about what happened, is that the
choosen a path is not the most optimal situation for the target
platform.
The most desirable would have been to build the bulk of userland
binaries as 32-bit with v8+ extensions (perhaps even with -mcpu=xxx
for some v9 cpu), and then for the specific packages that need it,
build 64-bit.
And I would assume that would be perhaps binutils and perhaps gcc
and GIT.
Yes, the 64-bit packages for everything should exist in the repository
and be built, but the default install should not have everything
64-bit.
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