Re: Proposal to start link time optimisation for Debian Med packages

2016-03-31 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Steffen Möller] > @Petter, Holger: For packages featuring LTO, would you consider it > reasonable to run those twice in the CI, i.e. with and without the LTO > optimisation? I doubt ci.debian.net is the right tool for this, as it is supposed to run tests on the installed packages, not during

Re: Proposal to start link time optimisation for Debian Med packages

2016-03-31 Thread Steffen Möller
On 31/03/16 02:34, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 01:36:58PM +0200, Steffen Möller a écrit : >> I had started this friendly and constructive thread on Debian Devel on >> link time optimisation >> >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/03/msg00399.html >> >> and my

Re: Proposal to start link time optimisation for Debian Med packages

2016-03-31 Thread Fabian Klötzl
Hi all, On 30.03.2016 22:28, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: >> The promotion of this enhancement I consider to be exceptionally >> important, especially so if we can tie this up with the continuous >> integration testing and some benchmarking. For all the folks that wait >> over some NGS data set to be

Re: Proposal to start link time optimisation for Debian Med packages

2016-03-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 01:36:58PM +0200, Steffen Möller a écrit : > > I had started this friendly and constructive thread on Debian Devel on > link time optimisation > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/03/msg00399.html > > and my personal consensus is that we should possibly start

Re: Proposal to start link time optimisation for Debian Med packages

2016-03-30 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Hi Steffen, […] > * minimal impact on regular packaging - maintainers should not need to > worry unless they do want to learn about it. To be achieved by changes > to debhelper and the sharing of our packaging in our source code > repositories. > > * LTO flags should be optionally excluded from

Proposal to start link time optimisation for Debian Med packages

2016-03-30 Thread Steffen Möller
Hello, I had started this friendly and constructive thread on Debian Devel on link time optimisation https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/03/msg00399.html and my personal consensus is that we should possibly start with the most rewarding scientific packages of ours to see how it goes.