On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 02:30:29AM +0200, Marc Dequènes wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > So, I wonder what exactly your intent is here. Do you mean to say that > > you don't care about being able to get new versions of pyopenal and soya > > into testing until the toolchain bug is fixed, and that you don't care > > whether these packages have to be removed from testing in order to get > > other updates in? That's the only way I can interpret a "wontfix" tag > > on an RC bug. > I don't see any reason to work around plenty of packages when this is > for sure an important toolchain bug which cannot be delayed for long and > my packages are not important ones and are already available > (unaffected) for most architectures. I don't see how being unable to use -O3 is "important". As policy clearly points out, -O3 is not appropriate as a general-purpose optimization flag; there are very few packages that actually need it, and I'm pretty sure it's inappropriate to use as a default optimization flag for python modules. > > Since policy does say that you should be using -O2 in most cases, I > > don't really see why you would wish to ignore the bug when a simple > > workaround is almost certainly possible. > Yeah, right. > Fact is my package is not selecting -O3, this is python distutils' > choice. So at least _all_ python modules are broken the same way, and > probably several other packages. Ok, then it sounds to me like the appropriate thing to do is to reassign this bug to python, rather than to "wontfix" it. > So if you really think this toolchain fix is not gonna come this fast, i > suggest we ask the python maintainers to switch default options to -O2 > and then i would rebuild my packages. I think that fixing a bug that only affects unnecessary optimization flags should be considered a lower priority than fixing bugs that cause failures *without* optimization. Don't you? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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