[Bug 1096986] [NEW] Backport aarch64 support to stable releases for infratructure/buildd use

[Adam Conrad]

Public bug reported:

The lucid-cat dpkg already knows about arm64/aarch64 (I backported it a
while ago for use on infrastructure machines), however precise missed
out on this, and instead of building special internal versions of tools
with simple backports like this, it makes much more sense to SRU them to
the archive proper, so others doing the same things we are (ie: building
and hosting archives on LTS releases) can also benefit from these
backports.

Quantal's dpkg already supports arm64, and no one except Canonical (who
is already dealt with via the above lucid-cat backport) should really
care about armd64-on-lucid, so this backport will only be done to
precise.

** Affects: dpkg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Invalid

** Affects: dpkg (Ubuntu Precise)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Adam Conrad (adconrad)
         Status: New

** Also affects: dpkg (Ubuntu Precise)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu Precise)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Adam Conrad (adconrad)

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Title:
  Backport aarch64 support to stable releases for infratructure/buildd
  use

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “dpkg” source package in Precise:
  New

Bug description:
  The lucid-cat dpkg already knows about arm64/aarch64 (I backported it
  a while ago for use on infrastructure machines), however precise
  missed out on this, and instead of building special internal versions
  of tools with simple backports like this, it makes much more sense to
  SRU them to the archive proper, so others doing the same things we are
  (ie: building and hosting archives on LTS releases) can also benefit
  from these backports.

  Quantal's dpkg already supports arm64, and no one except Canonical
  (who is already dealt with via the above lucid-cat backport) should
  really care about armd64-on-lucid, so this backport will only be done
  to precise.

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