Hello Rene, On 23.06.20 12:33, r...@rene-engelhard.de wrote: > Am 23. Juni 2020 12:05:18 MESZ schrieb Helge Deller <del...@gmx.de>: >> I'm one of the maintainers for the hppa/parisc architecture.... > > Which didn't build since 2018. And is constantly bd-uninststallable.
If you apply Adrian's patch which drops dependency on clang, then it maybe get's bd-installable again? >> On 19.06.20 19:12, Rene Engelhard wrote: >>> Am 19.06.20 um 17:46 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: >>>> On 6/19/20 1:08 PM, r...@rene-engelhard.de wrote: >>>>> Am 19. Juni 2020 12:52:40 MESZ schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >> <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>: >>>> I have honestly no clue why you would deny porters to build >> LibreOffice on non-release >>>> architectures given these circumstances. >>> >>> It is. That line needs to be maintained. >> >> Sure does it needs to be maintained. >> And for that reason it's important to get libreoffice built on the >> non-release architectures. > > No, why? It's a chain of package dependecies. If one fails, all other behind that package fail too. > And please maintain your port wrt installabity of packages before me accusing > of not caring, thanks. For that we need your help. E.g. there is no plan to support clang on hppa. >>> Ah, right, so you fix the stuff? >>> >>> - alpha broken for ages >>> - hppa broken for ages >>> - sparc64 BD-Unistallable for ages due to KDE >>> - kfreebsd-* BD-Uninstallable for ages >> >>> See https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libreoffice >> (sid). >> >> Yes, I'm sure Adrian will fix lots of issues in libreoffice for those >> architectures > > I am not. That's ok. You don't need to, unless you want to. The ask is, that you accept correct patches if they don't hurt you. > You haven't even remotely looked at the link did you? Look at how long alpha > is broken? Does it matter? There are people who want to fix things and need your help. >> He did in the past together with the ports maintainers. >> Speaking for hppa, libreoffice was fixed in 2017, then cleanly compiled >> until 2018: >> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=libreoffice&arch=hppa > > Wow, 2018. We are mid-2020. > > I know he contributed patches for some Arch's (e.g. m68k), that does not > change e.g. the alpha situation. Adrian contributes a LOT for all non-ports architectures. Patches for m68k often fix other ports too. >> [...] >> >>>> Would it be okay if I send a pull request to make the necessary >> changes? >>> >>> I am perfectly able to implement what you want. But whatever. >>> You can send any pull request. >>> That doesn't mean I'll merge it. >> >> It would be really nice and helpful for the debian-ports platforms if >> you would >> merge those, unless they break the release architectures. > > Why do I need to be helpful to dead architectures unless it's a LO issue? > It is not a new architecture where I could understand this until it's > up-to-date - it's dead ones. Because some people still do care. If it doesn't hurt you, why should you worry? Helge
