Re: W: armhf version for thunderbird bullseye

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hello!

On 10/6/21 16:38, Tuxo wrote:
> Is there a thunderbird version for armhf in one of the debian repositories?
>
> checking [1] and [2] they mention armhf versions of tb 78 for Buster and Stretch, none for Bullseye so far.

Carsten Schoenert has disabled the 32-bit ARM builds of Thunderbird, see [1].

I have no clue why that happened as there is no mention of that change in debian/changelog,
but I assume it's because Mozilla upstream broke support on these targets.

It's unfortunately a big of cat and mouse with fixing all these regular regressions on
architectures that Mozilla doesn't care about. We would need more people working on
these.

Adrian

> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=thunderbird&suite=sid

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[peter green]

I think the issue may have been the linker running out of address space. Certainly we ran into that in
raspbian.

I do have a thunderbird package in raspbian which may work for you, but I have to build it in a slightly
hacked-up environment with the linker replaced by a cross-linker.

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello Adrian, hello Tuxo,

Am 06.10.21 um 17:06 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:

> Hello!
>
> On 10/6/21 16:38, Tuxo wrote:
>> Is there a thunderbird version for armhf in one of the debian repositories?
>>
>> checking [1] and [2] they mention armhf versions of tb 78 for Buster and Stretch, none for Bullseye so far.
>
> Carsten Schoenert has disabled the 32-bit ARM builds of Thunderbird, see [1].
>
> I have no clue why that happened as there is no mention of that change in debian/changelog,
> but I assume it's because Mozilla upstream broke support on these targets.

the removal of the architectures in question did happen in preparation
for 1:68.2.1-1

---%<---
> thunderbird (1:68.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
> ...
> * [8f89b90] d/control: decrease build architecture list
> Decreasing the current list of build architectures. Not meant to keep this
> forever, removed RC architectures needing support and volunteering to get
> them back.
> (Closes: #921258)
>
> -- Carsten Schoenert <c.sch...@t-online.de> Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:36:59 +0100
--->%---

The commit in detail

https://salsa.debian.org/mozilla-team/thunderbird/-/commit/8f89b90f1054645f7f92d985bc747410123c38c2

> It's unfortunately a big of cat and mouse with fixing all these regular regressions on
> architectures that Mozilla doesn't care about. We would need more people working on
> these.

That's the nail, I'm unable to support all the possible architectures so
I need to concentrate on the most important architectures. arm{el,hf}
but also mipsel isn't that important in my eyes as usage of Thunderbird
on such systems is more a proof of a possibility.

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Regards
Carsten