On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 08:15:15PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-12-17 at 09:45 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>
> > Yes, but that still says:
>
> Ack.
>
> > I think a proper procedure should involve a script that:
> >
> > - is packaged in Debian;
>
> Ack.
>
> > - checks whether the hardware it's running on has all the hardware
> > requirements for the new architecture
>
> apt show arch-test
>
> > - is properly tested to work in (almost) all situations;
>
> jenkins.d.n would be the place to put full-system cross-grading tests.
> piuparts would be the place to put per-package cross-grading tests.
>
> > - is a properly supported way to move from one ABI to another.
>
> What do you mean by "properly supported"?
Where we don't go "it might break, and if it does, you get to keep the
pieces", but instead "if it breaks, that's a bug and we will fix it, and
try to help you recover from that".
--
< ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen
people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
-- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12
