> Why do I need to be helpful to dead architectures unless it's a LO issue?
Because it is what we do as maintainers. So much of what we do, in this case don't do, has knock-on consequences across open source. Cheers Skye -----Original Message----- From: r...@rene-engelhard.de [mailto:r...@rene-engelhard.de] Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 4:34 AM To: Helge Deller; John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: 963...@bugs.debian.org; debian-alpha@lists.debian.org; debian-ia64 Subject: Re: Bug#963109: libreoffice: Please drop clang from build-dependencies for alpha and ia64 Hi, Am 23. Juni 2020 12:05:18 MESZ schrieb Helge Deller <del...@gmx.de>: >Hello Rene, > >I'm one of the maintainers for the hppa/parisc architecture.... Which didn't build since 2018. And is constantly bd-uninststallable. >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? And please maintain your port wrt installabity of packages before me accusing of not caring, thanks. >> 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. You haven't even remotely looked at the link did you? Look at how long alpha is broken? >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. >[...] > >>> 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. Regards Rene