Re: Removing dpkg arch definitions for powerpcspe?

Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> Thu, 4 Sep 2025 14:48:05 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc,gmane.linux.debian.devel.dpkg.general
Message-ID <aLl8dTaTVLuotkUn@localhost>
On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 03:25:57AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
>...
> About whether there's any necessity to remove architectures, yeah, we
> could leave them around, but that also has a cost in that it is
> confusing to expose things that are currently not viable, and that
> people might end up trying to support and end up placing in package
> metadata for example, or tooling.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but aren't there issues when dpkg on 
ftp-master does not know about an architecture in the Architecture field?

Would dak on ftp-master running forky reject uploads of trixie packages 
like libreoffice or qemu?

> Thanks,
> Guillem

cu
Adrian