On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:34:53AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: >... > This is a Makefile bug in gcc-8-cross, a package which would qualify > as "big". Maintainer did not initially believe it was a real bug, > maybe because he built the package a lot of times in the past and the > bug never happened to him. > > See what the maintainer did afterwards: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=928424 > > Would we say in this case that the package "requires" more than > one CPU to build?
Noone denies that these are bugs. The actual problem is an ethical one, more specifically you wanting to have your "Please reproduce on a single-core machine and fix this" bugs RC so that other people are forced to spend their time on fixing them if they want their packages to stay in testing. > To me it seems like a bug which may happen to anybody, and the fact > that it did not happen in buildd.debian.org yet is due to pure chance. >... This is not pure chance. There are no single-core buildds for release architectures, and there will never be in the future. gcc-8-cross is only built on architectures with strong autobuilders, it is not built on ports architectures like hppa where the build would take weeks. This is a bug, but the practical benefits of fixing it would be zero. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed