Bug#821179: mpi-defaults: Please add powerpcspe architecture support

[kaleb white]

OK. Easy-peasy.
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From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de>
Sent: April 16, 2016 7:52:42 AM
To: Mattia Rizzolo
Cc: 821179 at bugs.debian.org; debian-powerpc at lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#821179: mpi-defaults: Please add powerpcspe architecture support

On 04/16/2016 04:33 PM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
>> We could still revist this in the future.
>
> Not really.
> Changing the default (as we did in s390x recently) implies a painful
> transition where you have to rebuild everything in the correct order (or
> they just ftbfs).

Ok, I wasn't aware of that. But I assume that Matthias' decision
is correct and powerpcspe isn't too different from regular powerpc,
it's basically just powerpc without an FPU and a slightly different
ABI.

Adrian

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