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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Please keep 32-bits alive
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 08:57:21PM +0100, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> Hendrik Boom writes:
> >How much source code actually cares whether pointers are 32 or 64 bits?
> >How many packages are ctually affected?
> >Any guesses?
>
> a+b.
>
> a = the number of things whose maintainers all use 64-bit OSes, and chance
> to have a relevant bug. Given the number of small teams, I'm not at all
> surprised if a hundred or more of the tens of thousands of debian packages
> are affected.


Is Debian planning to cut 32-bit support? If not, we'd have to be
concerned ony with the subset of those packages with systemd
dependencies.

-- hendrik