[pkg-fso-maint] Slowly uploading to main: independent packages

Luca Capello luca at pca.it
Mon May 18 11:43:18 UTC 2009


Hi Didier!

On Mon, 18 May 2009 13:09:34 +0200, Didier Raboud wrote:
> Luca Capello wrote:
>> And then I forgot that there was another question (I promise, the last
>> one!): should we build it only for armel?  AFAIK it is used no where
>> else but the FR, thus I do not see the point in providing binary
>> packages for other architecture.  However, it compiles perfectly on
>> amd64 ;-)
[...]
> I see absolutely no reason not to compile those packages on all arches 
> Debian provides. The only reason I might see is to spare buildd time.
>
> Providing packages on all possible arches is a clear bonus for code quality 
> and portability. ;)

While this is true, it could generates various FTBFS bugs because of
missing features/options.

Another point against portability is that if the Glamo chipset needs an
ARM SoC to work, then the X.Org driver itself is useless on anything bug
armel.  This is what I have understood (as a profane) from:

  http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Smedia_Glamo_3362

Anyway, your reply arrived a bit too late:

  http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-fso/xf86-video-glamo.git;a=commitdiff;h=993fcc586722383139a6d24e635f84ca2ccb78fa

I will be glad to revert the above commit if more complaints arrive
before the package is uploaded to NEW :-)

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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