> This is entirely the wrong lens.
Telling people they need to take their ball and go home if they're incapable or unable to maintain an entire compiler back-end seems like a, shall we say, 'interesting' lens for a major distro such as Debian.
Just to parse some files?
Just to parse some files there are already tools and libraries for, for added security, without specifying a threat model
These are not officially supported platforms. It doesn't seem that unreasonable for Debian to not want to be restricted to "code that can be run on CPUs from the 1990s" in 2025
It's cool that you can run modern Debian on an Amiga or whatever, but it's not particularly important that that be the case.