Re: Bug#983423: schroot: regression presumably in 1.6.13-4 after fixing #983423

Simon McVittie dixit:

>I was not aware of any mips* buildds still on 4.9 (Debian 9 kernel). The
>only mips family architecture listed on buildd.debian.org is mips64el, for

I think 4.9 is some mipsel buildds. Shortly after the discussion,
which I’m attaching as I don’t know where it’s otherwise archived,
mipsel was removed from sid with no fanfare or announcement, so I
think those now only build for the old releases’ security support,
but the porters/buildd admins would know. Also unsure whether any
derivative distro still has mipsel with sid packages (but it then
is their problem to obtain newer kernels).

>If there are unofficial mips* buildds outside the buildd.debian.org
>infrastructure, then I would hope that either they can be upgraded to a
>Debian 10 or later kernel, or they can run a Debian 12 or older user-space
>(in particular, not keeping up with the latest sbuild).

Or that.

>However, if I'm
>reading kernel git history correctly, the patch proposed on #1079124
>should in principle work with any 4.7+ kernel (not tested). This would
>not have been broad enough compatibility in 2017, but seems OK now.

Yes, certainly.

Thanks,
//mirabilos
-- 
When he found out that the m68k port was in a pretty bad shape, he did
not, like many before him, shrug and move on; instead, he took it upon
himself to start compiling things, just so he could compile his shell.
How's that for dedication. -- Wouter, about my Debian/m68k revival