Re: Michael Cree 2015-08-26 <20150826052530.GA4256@tower> > I reported the failure to build on Alpha, with an explanation and a > patch to fix it, to the Debian package maintainers over a year ago, > and within about of a month of version 9.4 being uploaded to Debian. > > My recollection is that prior versions (9.2 and 9.3) compiled on > Alpha so the use of the wrong barrier, and the fix, was in fact > reported in a timely fashion following the first reasonable chance to > observe the problem. > > It has been built and running at Debian-Ports for over a year now as > I uploaded the fixed version to the Alpha unreleased distribution.
Hi Michael, (I've discovered this branch of this thread only now, I got removed from CC.) Sorry for letting that rot for so long - I'd blame the Debian infrastructure for not showing ports information in the usual places. I've really only discovered the problem because buildd.debian.org is now showing the non-main architectures as well. (Of course we could just have looked at the bug report...) I guess we should look into making that even more visible. Is there a list of packages that have ports-only patches applied which we could use to make maintainers aware via ddpo/pts/tracker? Having a porter box available would help as well. > > It'd be easy enough to s/rmb/mb/ in 9.4 ... but not sure it's worth > > the trouble, since we're desupporting Alpha as of 9.5 anyway. > > That is disappointing to hear. Why is that? It is still in use on > Alpha. What is the maintenance load for keeping the Alpha arch > specific code? Fwiw I'd be curious to see if 9.5 still works using the generic primitives, but atm it's blocking on perl5.20: Dependency installability problem for postgresql-9.5 on alpha: postgresql-9.5 build-depends on: - alpha:libipc-run-perl alpha:libipc-run-perl depends on: - alpha:libio-pty-perl alpha:libio-pty-perl depends on missing: - alpha:perlapi-5.20.0 Christoph -- c...@df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
