Hi,
ext Graham Cobb wrote:
> On Thursday 07 February 2008 13:24:32 Eero Tamminen wrote:
>> If some specific package has issues on x86 due to its development
>> happening on ARM only, I don't see that as a problem except in a sense
>> that its developers not caring that much about quality in general and
>> wasting their time debugging things on ARM that could be more easily
>> debugged on x86 with something like Valgrind.
>
> That would be a completely unreasonable conclusion to draw! Please don't
> assume everyone else's projects work in the same way as the ones you work
> on!!
>
> For example, many packages are ports of applications which are primarily
> developed on other platforms. For example, I do not build opensync for maemo
> x86 because I do all my debugging on my desktop debian system. I also do not
> plan to put x86 packages for GPE into extras because they would have had zero
> testing. I might put them in extras-devel because some other GPE developers
> might find it convenient to have them available for debugging, as you
> suggest, but that doesn't mean I would necessarily want to promote them to
> extras.
I wasn't suggesting that all ARM packages have corresponding x86
packages, but that if there *is* an x86 package, it should be the
same version as to ARM package.
> Despite that, I suppose it might be worth considering that the advantage of
> consistency means that all architectures should be promoted at once. I could
> understand that if someone else had a package which depended on a GPE library
> they might want to be able to debug a problem on x86 and might want to use
> the same version as is in extras (not a later version, say, from
> extras-devel).
But for libraries and services it would be really nice to provide both...
- Eero
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