Re: Bug#1143117: RM: gmt [armhf i386 loong64 ppc64el riscv64 s390x] -- ROM; Unsupported architectures

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:09:44 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID <e3c524bd2ecec02a089519933da1a19ecf791bde.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Hi,

On Thu, 2026-07-30 at 18:03 +0200, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
> Please remove gmt everywhere except amd64 & arm64.
>=20
> The gmt_update executable only supports those two.
>=20
> https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt/issues/9116

These kind of removal request are honestly getting out of hand.

At some point, the Debian archive will be 95% x86_64 and arm64 only
which means that users are being locked into certain proprietary
architectures. This is really a concerning direction.

Adrian

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