Package: qemu-user-static Version: 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u5 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: jrt...@debian.org
debian/binfmt-install assumes that if you're running on an architecture in the same family as another then you can run it, and thus won't install the binfmt file for it. This may in practice be generally true for x86, where the vast majority of people are running a 64-bit kernel on hardware that can do both, but it's increasingly not true for arm64 where even 32-bit support at EL0 is not available, such as on my system. It's also almost certainly not going to be true for riscv64, where most hardware doesn't support mixed-XLEN, but given there is no riscv32 port for Debian in practice nobody's going to care about it. As it stands in order to use qemu-arm-static for armhf on my arm64 system I have to go and grab the binfmt file from e.g. amd64, which is not a good user experience. Probably something like a postinst script that chooses whether to enable it based on your specific system config is in order. -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: arm64 (aarch64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-21-arm64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled qemu-user-static depends on no packages. Versions of packages qemu-user-static recommends: ii systemd 252.22-1~deb12u1 qemu-user-static suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
