Re: git: 860ce9aee61a - main - security/picocrypt: Whitelist 64-bit archs

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 07:03:46PM +0000, Nuno Teixeira wrote:
> commit 860ce9aee61aacd34f0b1c29d54f44dd86168835
> 
>   security/picocrypt: Whitelist 64-bit archs

This is not the best approach, I'll elaborate more on this below.

>   - Upstream only supports 64-bit

Can they be convinced to enable it again?  When I first ported this
program it definitely compiled everywhere, albeit I don't recall if
I tried to run it on my i386 desktop.

> +ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=	amd64 arm64 mips64 powerpc64 powerpc64le riscv64 sparc64
> +ONLY_FOR_ARCHS_REASON=	upstream only supports 64-bit

64-bit list is more likely to change than 32-bit and is also much shorter
(i386, arv{6,7}), so if you prefer arch limitation over fixing the bug than
NOT_FOR_ARCHS is better as it entails less churn over time.  Also, support
for sparc64 is pretty much dropped (and even when it was kind of supported,
we stopped building packages for it for a long time), less sure of mips64
but I think it had been phased out in src land recently as well.

./danfe