[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#818552: Bug#818552: nodejs on armel (v5l) fails with "illegal instruction"

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Jérémy Lal (2016-06-18 14:16:11)
> > Update: v8 has dropped armv5 support, see
> > https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5810
> > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/v8-users/aSOFbaAQvMk
> > I'm going to remove "armel" from the list of Architectures.
> 
> And as usual, i'm completely lost when it comes to that part. It's easy to
> do something,
> but i don't understand clearly all the consequences on existing armel
> packages that depend
> or build-depend on nodejs;
> - should i whitelist in debian/control Architecture field ?
> it seems error-prone since i must be sure i'm not forgetting any official
> arch, and blacklisting
> is not possible ("any -armel" would have been so cool, though).
> - should i leave architecture "any", and ask removal of nodejs/armel from
> testing then artificially
> make it fail when building on armel ?

No matter if also doing other things, we must request removal, for 
nodejs itself and also for all arch-any reverse dependencies of nodejs.

Marking in source that the package is not targeted armel at all is a 
nice thing to do but not essential, as I understand it.

 - Jonas

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