On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 6:29 AM, Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@err.no> wrote: > ]] Wei Liu > >> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 05:47:27 +1030 Ron <r...@debian.org> wrote: >> [...] >> > That's basically why "just nuke htags now" is starting to look like >> > a viable, and even sensible, option. But it's tricky to know who >> > might be upset by that - and we don't have a clear idea of exactly >> > what we'd really gain elsewhere from that tradeoff, since most of >> > the people saying "I need a new upstream" haven't actually been >> > telling us what the real problem is which that fixes, even when I >> > asked. >> >> Gtags in Debian doesn't work with modern code base. Last time I tried >> (several >> years ago), it segfault'ed while trying to index Linux kernel. > > FWIW, it worked fine in a test run I just did (on linux-4.9 rc 1), and > last time I used it, it also worked fine with the emacs integration, so > I don't recognise the crying from the rooftops about it being broken in > Debian. >
Sure, if it works for you. That's great. I couldn't go back in time to extract a backtrace or coredump. It could be that I was so unlucky that at the time my computer was constantly hit by cosmic rays that it just couldn't cope with that version of global. I installed a new version of global since then and never looked back. But at some point I decided I cared enough to check the situation of global in Debian again. I scraped all information I could find and that led to #816924 (which is the reason I know about this CTTE bug, BTW). It is entirely possible that all reporters who said global didn't work were all out-liners. It is entirely possible that there are hundreds (based on popcon data) of satisfying Debian global users in the wild. They just don't speak up because there is nothing to report. I can only reason from first principle: there is a reason why a new release is made. Either there are new shiny features, or there are bugs to fix, most likely to be both. I don't believe the current Debian global is free of bugs, and I believe it would serve Debian best if we move on from this ancient version. If some sort of objective metric is needed, I suggest we wait until popcon number drops to zero, however long it takes. I'm absolutely fine with that. :-) Wei. > -- > Tollef Fog Heen > UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
