[Debian-salsa-ci] Discussion: autopkgtest support for ARM architectures

[Andrea Pappacoda]

Hi Aquila!

On Fri Aug 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM CEST, aquilamacedo wrote:
> I've been working on enabling autopkgtest for ARM architectures 
> (arm64, armel, armhf) in salsa-ci through 
> https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/autopkgtest-lxc. Actually it is 
> straightforward to add them, but I'm a bit concerned about the cost of 
> supporting every release x every ARM arch

I think that testing just one of them would be a good enough 
improvement. And, if I had to choose, I'd add armel because it is the 
most "exotic" architecture amongst the three:

- It's not 64 bit
- Does not have "hard float" support
- Does not have built in atomics

In my experience, things are more likely to break there, compared to the 
other two archs.

Hope it makes sense! Bye :)
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