Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416

From	Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416
Date	2024-09-12 20:10 +0200
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On Thu, 2024-09-12 at 12:19 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> Dropping leader@ and community@ from Cc as this is a technical
> side-track.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 12:38:24AM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2024-09-09 at 02:13 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > [...]
> > > My answers below are mine alone.  I have not discussed this with other
> > > team members and do not speak for them.
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 2024-09-04 at 15:30 +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> > > > Hello kernel maintainers,
> > > > 
> > > > While potential solutions to this bug are being discussed, would you
> > > > please consider removing the Provides from linux-libc-dev?
> > > 
> > > I am open to doing so.
> > [...]
> > 
> > I raised this at today's team meeting and it was agreed to do this; see
> > <https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/1198>.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> I note that these provides (while causing problems) also solved one
> problem that now reappears. linux-libc-dev is marked `Multi-Arch:
> foreign`, but this technically is a lie. It does not provide
> linux-libc-dev for all architectures - not even for all linux-any
> architectures and never will.
[...]

It is trivial for us to add support for additional architectures once
they are minimally supported in upstream Linux (we may also require
that dpkg recognises their triplet; I'm not sure).  There is no
requirement that we define a kernel configuration for the architecture
at the same time, or ever (see x32).

Can we assume that new Debian Linux ports will be able to satisfy that
or would that be a problem sometimes?


Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings - Debian developer, member of kernel, installer and LTS
teams

Thread

Bastian's offer in #1065416 Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-08-17 06:10 +0200
  Re: Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> - 2024-09-04 15:40 +0200
    Re: Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2024-09-09 02:20 +0200
      Re: Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2024-09-12 00:40 +0200
        Re: Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 stefanor@debian.org - 2024-09-12 12:00 +0200
          Re: Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2024-09-15 14:10 +0200
        Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> - 2024-09-12 14:40 +0200
          Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2024-09-12 20:10 +0200
            Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> - 2024-09-14 12:00 +0200
            Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2024-09-15 14:00 +0200
              Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2024-09-15 16:50 +0200
        Re: Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2024-09-19 22:10 +0200
          Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> - 2024-11-28 22:10 +0100
            Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2024-11-30 22:20 +0100
            Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416 Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> - 2025-01-28 00:50 +0100

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