On Mon, 2023-07-03 at 17:58 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 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.org
> >
> > Dear 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?
I checked the existing architectures. Following three are not covered:
* arc
* ia64
* x32
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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
