On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 07:59:02AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
I won't be surprised if at some point no arguments, not even this one, will be enough to keep 32-bit architectures as full ports in Debian, and armhf, if not dropped completely by that point, will become a port with significantly lower % of packages built and/or with significantly lower QA obligations like requiring tests to pass.Does armhf have a 32-bit time_t? If it does, there's a hard limit of its lifetime (2038) and unless someone is willing to spend the time to creae a new ABI with a 64-bit time_t, it's going to be doomed in a decade or so.
Unfortunately, the Debian project spent a huge amount of manpower and CPU time last spring to move armel and armhf to 64-bit time_t. I don't believe armhf will be supported in Debian until 2038, but this gets political and is also a (mostly?) finished matter anyway, so meh.
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