tags 385781 moreinfo thanks On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 03:19:57AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 02:38:17PM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > >0.3.7pre-4, however, did build on alpha, arm, ia64, m68k and s390, and the > > >corresponding binaries are still in unstable. The maintainer has already > > >requested their removal (#385781) a few days ago, so it's currently waiting > > >for that to be actioned. > > > In other words, the real status is that there are old binaries in > > architectures that aren't listed in hardinfo anymore and once #385781 > > is closed, it will be able to move into testing, right? > > It's correct that as long as 385781 is open, the package isn't going to > migrate into testing. > > But as an alpha porter I object to 385781 being closed without there having > been any consultation of debian-alpha. I don't see any reason that > architectures such as alpha, arm, and ia64 that clearly have the interfaces > hardinfo is intended to apply to should suddenly lose support for it as a > consequence of dubious upstream code abstractions. I.e., the *only* > differences between any of the existing arch/linux/foo trees in this package > are in the processor.h file, which is itself unpleasantly non-headerlike, > consisting entirely of static function definitions. > > I would probably be more than happy to write up processor_get_info() and > computer_get_processor() routines for alpha, but the additional busywork > imposed on porters by the poor overall code layout bothers me. What could > have been a single build-time define and a C file with #ifdef'ed > architecture-specific routines is instead a symlink farm requiring manual > porting work just to get the package to recognize a new architecture > name(!). Is this really an improvement over the portable code currently in > testing, for any architecture? > > BTW, the sparc binaries are silently broken: > > In file included from computer.c:70: > ./arch/this/processor.h: In function 'computer_get_processor': > ./arch/this/processor.h:44: warning: implicit declaration of function > 'get_processor_strfamily' > mv -f computer.so modules > > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=hardinfo&ver=0.4.1-2&arch=sparc&stamp=1151034855&file=log&as=raw
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