[Pkg-xen-devel] [PATCH 00/16] Current cross-build patches, some misc

[Hans van Kranenburg]

On 1/3/21 4:19 AM, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> From the description of messages, I'm left suspecting it is the list
> server corrupting patches, not the MTAs.  Perhaps there is extra magic in
> `git send-email` which tickles list servers in magic ways, but again that
> needs `git send-email` in a place which mismatches my setup (fine,
> I've got an odd setup, that doesn't make it wrong).

It is wrong. To be explicit, from now on I will silently ignore
everything that is not sent using git send-email.

> My primary goal is having cross-builds working.

And for that reason I'm trying to get some things in that will help
achieving that goal.

I had to throw some things out again, because of FTBFS or lintian
errors. I have been spending too much time discovering this while it is
avoidable. Do your builds, also the normal builds, run lintian etc.
before sending all of it.

> I've ended up picking up
> some extra pieces related to this along the way.  I'm a bit worried this
> is turning into a misnamed trilogy.  The earlier patches are more
> crucial/valuable, the later patches are pretty well optional.

Well, learning some more about converting from bash to sh was
interesting. And I do also like the pipe into loop more than overly use
of sub shells.

But, really, trying to figure out what you are doing and why is rather
labor intensive and sometimes mind boggling. Try to just tell what you
want and why and do realize that if you send something, someone else has
to actually spend time to read it. Writing essays and contemplating
about hypothetical theoretical futures and overly use of unquantified
language like substantially better, greater speed, reduces complexity,
hundreds or thousands of files, large overhead, slow, fast,
dramatically, etc. is not that helpful.

> [...]
Have fun,
Hans