On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 06:58:27PM -0600, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > We actually ran into something along this issue with git. > > Now, arm is an interesting keyword, because for arm, when something > needs to be stabled, we have to test armv4, armv5, armv6, armv6 > hardfloat, armv7, armv7 hardfloat, armv7 uclibc. > > In my testing, one known issue was that git on uclibc did (and still > doesn't) work properly starting with git 1.8 - so I noted in the bug > that this was the case, and to NOT stable it for arm. Unfortunately, > someone else on the ARM team disregarded the note and stabled the new > git, then the git maintainers dropped the old versions. Now on arm > uclibc, git is entirely broken and unusable. Ugh, this does suck.
Wasn't there a proposal years ago to include the libc in the keyword? -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85