Hi! On Tue, 2017-05-23 at 01:44:29 +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > 2016-05-04 2:03 GMT+02:00 Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org>: > > On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 19:26:50 +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > > > - the support in the toolchain projects has not been merged yet, > > > althought it's been planned for some time and can start at any moment > > > > > > I understand if you don't want to enable support yet for this reason, > > > I can ping the bug when that happens. > > > > Yes, I'd rather wait. I'm marking the bug as moreinfo, please remove > > the tag when the upstreaming is complete. > > GCC (present in 7.x) and binutils (2.28 onwards, actually before that > in Debian due to backported patches to 2.27) have been upstreamed, > glibc and Linux (among others) are missing. > > Do you still prefer to wait until all bits are upstreamed? Aurelient > Jarno told me several times that it would be important to be have > support in stable releases, otherwise people like DSA are a bit more > reluctant (or gives them more work) to install from backports or > similar, for the bits of infrastructure which need support.
Yeah I'd like to wait, otherwise there is no guarantee the ABI is properly defined. Regarding stable, as I think I've mentioned in the past, adding arches within dpkg stable updates is standard practice precisely due to the reasons you give. So I'm happy to do that one the upstreaming is completed. On Tue, 2017-05-23 at 20:18:52 +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > Coincidentially, the process of upstreaming Linux already started: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/22/1058 Ah nice! :) Thanks, Guillem
