Re: Architecture baseline for Forky

Holger Levsen <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Nov 2025 08:27:28 +0000

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On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 08:42:08PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> This thread only discusses bumping baselines, but I wonder if we should
> consider other ways to provide architecture-optimized versions of some
> packages?

indeed, me too thinks this would be good.
 
> https://wiki.debian.org/InstructionSelection lists some, including
> glibc's hwcaps.
> 
> Also Canonical/Ubuntu decided to enable architecture variants in dpkg
> and APT since Ubuntu 2025.10. See:

/me likes both of these suggestions, thanks!


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