shared memory problem on armel

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:58:32 -0800, Mike Thompson wrote:

Preface: Please don't top-post.

Disclaimer: I'm reading this mail because it was CC'd to the
libipc-sharelite-perl maintainers; if there's something we can/should
do: fine. Besides that I have not much knowledge about architecture
specific stuff.

> As armhf really describes the ABI rather than the underlying CPU
> architecture, it would make our jobs with Raspbian much easier if CPU
> architecture dependent packages could test that the architecture is indeed
> Armv7+ and not blindly assume armhf implicitly means the system is running
> on an Armv7+ architecture. It's unfortunate that a handful of packages make
> this assumption and adding more to the mix doesn't help.

Can this test be expressed in some easy terms to be used in
debian/rules?
 
> Ideally, I would love to see Raspbian folded back into the Debian Project,

Oh, yes, that would be nice -- running a proper Debian instead of the
(AFAICS well-made) almost-Debian Raspbian would be cool.

> but I realize this won't happen for a variety of reasons.  Therefore, it
> would be useful if at least those working on armhf packages 

Well, those are all maintainers of all 20.000 (?) source packages in
Debian :)

Cheers,
gregor

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