[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Efficiently supporting (or not) other arches in the long term

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 26/12/2016 à 15:43, Ximin Luo a écrit :
> Rust upstream does not regularly run tests for anything other than amd64 or i386:
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> https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html
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> This has resulted in the past few releases of Debian's rustc being held back from testing migration, due to arm64 breakages that we had to file upstream:
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> 1.10.0 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/34889
> 1.11.0 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/36348
> 1.12.0 there probably was one but I can't remember it
> 1.13.0 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/37225
> 1.14.0 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/38612
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> We can't keep doing this long-term, I don't have time to chase these things every 6 weeks. And soon we might start supporting 7 new architectures, which will have their own test failures.
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> What shall we do about this? I think it's nice to support as many architectures as possible, and that is strongly encouraged by Debian - but upstream don't provide the same level of support. I'll suggest two options:
Or we could just fail at build time on tier-1 and continue if the
testsuite fails on the other archs.
To be honest, this is what I am doing with LLVM & Clang...

Sylvestre