Re: Suitability of Rust for *all* architectures? [WAS Re: Rustc unsoundness on i386]

[Fabian Grünbichler]

On November 24, 2024 6:23:00 PM GMT+01:00, Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org> 
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On 11/24/24 17:22, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>> 5. If we're moving hardware baselines for the sake of Rust (or any other
>> software on this architecture) it's already too late.
>
>Huh? Why?
>
>[Putting my Release Team hat off] Personally I think Debian should be raising 
>the baseline for i386. I'm not sure about to which level, but I've seen 
>proposals in this thread.
>
>Given that
>1) we're no longer supporting i386 as a full architecture (no kernel, no 
>installer, only in chroots or as multiarch)
>2) we don't clearly have i386 porters
>maybe we should seek consensus in this thread and go with that.
>
>[Release Team hat on] I would take consensus for a decision on the topic.

Probably obvious given my other replies in this thread, but just FTR - I'd 
support that :)