Qt 6 on X32 and HPPA ports: upstream requiring proof of usage

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

El jueves, 2 de febrero de 2023 16:20:29 -03 Sam James escribió:
> > On 2 Feb 2023, at 19:01, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
> > <perezmeyer at gmail.com> wrote:> 
> > El jueves, 2 de febrero de 2023 15:54:44 -03 Helge Deller escribió:
> >> On 2/2/23 19:21, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> >>> El jueves, 2 de febrero de 2023 15:08:49 -03 Sam James escribió:
> >>> [snip]
> >>> 
> >>>>> Pruning whatever code they do not test on the CI and does not has
> >>>>> active
> >>>>> users, no matter how short/long it can be.
> >>>> 
> >>>> At
> >>>> https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qbs/qbs/+/437296/comments/9b34cbab_
> >>>> 87
> >>>> ce
> >>>> d2e4, someone suggested adding cross HPPA (and maybe others) to their
> >>>> Docker setup. That could be a start.
> >>> 
> >>> I'm quite in contact with the CI staff. I sincerely don't think they
> >>> will
> >>> want to add yet another CI image except they have a big client requiring
> >>> it :-/
> >> 
> >> I think this will only be debian, and gentoo - both distributions support
> >> hppa.
> >> 
> >>> I'll bring it up next week, but I will not have high expectations on
> >>> this.
> >> 
> >> Btw, I did noticed that the hppa build on debian failed, but was too busy
> >> with other things to look into it. And, I was hoping someone would fix it
> >> as it seemed trivial.
> >> Beside the CI, we have two debian porterboxes for hppa, so testing is
> >> possible.
> > 
> > Well, that's already a bad signal :-/ It means there are no real users for
> > it (yet?), else you would be seeing complaints :-(
> 
> Someone in #gentoo-hppa a few days ago got a KDE Plasma desktop running,
> believe it or not ;)
> 
> As for Debian: I guess Helge means "new build fails", not "the package isn't
> available".

Sorry, I also took that in the wrong direction.
 
> Debian users do not build from source usually, so they wouldn't notice a
> problem.

Of course.
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