This never made it to the packaging guidelines, but FESCo made a relevant decision a few years ago:
Libraries packaged in Fedora may require ISA extensions, however any packaged application must not crash on any officially supported architecture, either by providing a generic fallback implementation OR by cleanly exiting when the requisite hardware support is unavailable.
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/1044
On 6/12/24 9:51 AM, Stephen Gallagher
wrote:
On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 8:41 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:There have been various change proposals & associated mailing list threads over the years about the possibility of moving Fedora compiler toolchain to build with a newer x86_64 baseline ABI, which have ended up rejected, with some quite strong negative feedback. Regardless of the Fedora general policy, however, individual packages may have forced a particular x86_64 baseline ABI through their own CFLAGS defined by the upstream project. The context is that QEMU has recently merged changes upstream that force use of the x86-64-v2 baseline for QEMU, in order get more efficient code in the TCG emulator. The changes were made in QEMU's global CFLAGS so this will affect all usage of QEMU, whether KVM, or TCG, for both VMs and user space emulation (the latter used by podman for non-native containers) IOW, if [when] we rebase Fedora to the next QEMU upstream release, users with older x86_64 hardware would likely be unable to run QEMU, from F41 onwards, unless some TBD action is taken. Thus I'm wondering whether Fedora has any policy or guidance on handling such a situation both in general, and more specifically for "critical path" packages, if that difference is relevant ? The packaging guidelines aren't especially explicit about this situation, unless I've missed something beyond the "compiler flags" and "architecture support" sections.Absent a project-wide decision to move to the newer baseline, I think the best approach we can take would be to find some way to communicate to the user that the software isn't usable. In the case of Qemu, does the application report an error or crash if it's run on hardware without the requisite baseline? -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
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