On Sat, 13 Jun 2020, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > I haven’t ever seen this. I’ve prominently worked on x32 support and > am known to be a user relying on this and willing to help. You could > at least have asked on d-d-announce or something.
I emailed whomever I could track down at the time, as well as people that were suggested as "might be interested" by the ones I managed to reach. This is like, the third time I try to get a x32 enthusiast to help ? If https://wiki.debian.org/X32Port was up-to-date, the issue might have been resolved a long time ago. An email to d-devel might be acceptable (unlike sending it to d-d-a, the fact that you even suggest d-d-a to reach a x32 porter thruly worries me). I should have considered sending it more strongly... and likely would, before going through with the removal. But IMO, arches *must* have up-to-date, active points of contact, and that they must be easy to locate when you need them. That biased me against sending emails around to lots of people. Oh well, my mistake I suppose. Note that on previous tries, I did email GNU config upstream, and as far as I recall, the people behind the original patches for x32, and asked around for people in #d-devel in IRC, etc. Also, please keep in mind that I went out of my way to help x32 deploy in gnu config and Debian at the time it was introduced, it is not like I have anything against x32 or its continued existence. > >I am seriously considering uploading it and effectively removing x32 > >support from Debian. > > Please don’t. This can trivially be carried locally (which we did for > other architectures, even new ones, before so has precedent) and we > can lobby upstream to retain it. Sure, please send me a patch that applies against latest upstream and I will carry it for as long as it works *and* if it breaks, delay new upstreams for a while to get it fixed (that means a few weeks/months, not an year, though). However, I *recommend* that this page get a proper update including a list of active points of contact: https://wiki.debian.org/X32Port And that effort be made to restore x32 in GNU config upstream, even if it means convincing upstream to accept the dependency on pre-processors. -- Henrique Holschuh
