https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/12/msg00003.html
Le Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 03:21:11PM +0100, Paul Gevers a écrit :
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/12/msg00003.html
Thanks, I read it at the time but I did not understand the meaning:
do you really expect that we progressively edit thousands of
debian/control files and file thousands of FTP removal bugs?
Le Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 03:21:11PM +0100, Paul Gevers a écrit :
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/12/msg00003.htmlThanks, I read it at the time but I did not understand the meaning:
do you really expect that we progressively edit thousands of
debian/control files and file thousands of FTP removal bugs?
I am not complaining about effort to keep useful i386 packages in
Debian, but about the lack of tools to remove the other i386 packages
in a smarter ways. Can we not just have a way to send a signed email
to a bot somewhere with a list of packages, and voilà , they are
removed seamlessly and we can focus on other tasks?
The package names starts with r-cran. Upstream, they are tested against amd64 and Silicon only. If you look at the health of the packages andMake the main R package, or another key dependency, build-depend on 64
the team, it is not good. Well it is as good as many pieces of the free software ecocystem: crumbling under the weight.
On 10/14/24 2:42 PM, Charles Plessy wrote:
The package names starts with r-cran.
Time is better spent on updating the tooling to add
architecture-is-64-bit to the build dependencies for those packages,
as well as generating RM bug reports for the partial removals on [i386
armel armhf].
Hello,
I hadn't heard of these architecture-is-64-bit and not-supported-on metapackages(?). Would someone who knows how they are meant to work
consider submitting a patch for Policy? Thanks.
I hadn't heard of these architecture-is-64-bit and not-supported-on metapackages(?). Would someone who knows how they are meant to work consider submitting a patch for Policy? Thanks.
I think they, just like isa-support, are means to circumvent the Policy / work around its and dpkg's shortcomings and so I'm not sure if it makes sense to document them there, and if so, where exactly.
I don't agree that architecture-is-64-bit is in the same group of circumventing Policy. While isa-support prevents installation by failing during install (IIRC) and is a hack to prevent baseline violation during execution of binaries, architecture-is-64-bit is a *build* dependency and prevents building on architectures where the package isn't supported.
I haven't heard how not-supported-on works and can't quickly find
references.
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