On 2018-12-07 15:24 +0100, Paul Boddie wrote:
Cross-building would be a workaround, but Debian appears fundamentally opposed to that,
Do you mean 'as buildds'? Debian's support from cross-building has improved hugely over the last 8 years, and you can now crossbuild a _lot_ of debian. Helmut told me 'nearly 2/3rds' a while ago, although I'm not sure if that's 2/3rds of _everything_, or some subset.
There is lots more that could be done (not least educating upstreams that like to do 'uncrossable things'), but we are the opposite of 'fundamentally opposed to it'.
even though the alternative is the abandonment of architectures. And you even have the new and shiny arm64 support in jeopardy because the appropriate server hardware never seems to get to market (or stick around).
In what way is arm64 'in jeopardy'? I don't think it's going anywhere.
Wookey