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by sanxiyn 1065 days ago
All Debian packages are built natively. There is no cross build going on here.
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During the initial port bootstrap process, the initial package set is cross-built using rebootstrap:

https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/New#Bootstrap

Perhaps in the future Debian will be able to have cross-build-only architectures, that have hardware too slow to build software.