03.07.2023 17:05, Benjamin Drung wrote:
Package: qemu-system-arm Version: 1:8.0.2+dfsg-3 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: bdr...@debian.orgDear Maintainer, qemu 8.0 added symlinks to run qemu-system-${DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU}. This is a great improvement, but you still have to install `dpkg-dev` to determine `DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU`. Please add symlinks to run `qemu-system-$(dpkg --print-architecture)` to avoid needing to depend on `dpkg-dev`. Here is a use case for it: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/initramfs-tools/-/merge_requests/80 The non-exhaustive list of additional symlinks would be: * armhf -> arm * armel -> arm
When I worked on providing symlinks for debian architectures, I asked in a few places which other aliases needs to be created. Somehow no one mentioned these two. I guess this boils down to: diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index d71aefbf92..3335bd311b 100755 --- a/debian/rules +++ b/debian/rules @@ -143,2 +143,3 @@ system-archlist-arm = aarch64 arm system-alias-aarch64 = arm64 +system-alias-arm = armel armhf system-kvmcpus-arm = arm64 arm (this will create qemu-system-armel & qemu-system-armhf symlinks). We probably need to create ppc65le => ppc64el too, but I'm not sure. What other names are needed? Thanks, /mjt
