Re: Architecture baseline for Forky

Hi,

On 26/10/25 at 13:21 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Hi
> 
> We never did a real discussion about architecture baselines before, but I think
> we should do that.  We also don't have any guidelines what we as Debian want to
> actually support.  But given that we are a general purpose distribution, we
> have to find a balance.

This thread only discusses bumping baselines, but I wonder if we should
consider other ways to provide architecture-optimized versions of some
packages?

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:
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-architecture-variants-amd64v3-now-available-in-ubuntu-25-10/71312
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1118567
https://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureVariants
https://lwn.net/Articles/1044383/

Lucas