Bug#907829: p4est: FTBFS on single CPU machines

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 04:36:25PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 04:32:17PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> But surely that's not an excuse good enough to deprecate Debian on
> single-core systems, which is what you apparently are trying to do
> here.
> 
> As far as following blindly the rule you say results in something as
> grave and deep as deprecating Debian on single-core systems,
>...

Please stop these unfounded accusations.

Noone is talking about no longer supporting running Debian on 
single-core systems.

Building all packages on the baseline is never possible, and I already 
tried to explain to you that your "1 CPU with unlimited RAM" scenario is 
pretty far away from the real-world problems.

A Raspberry Pi is a quad-core faster than our current armel/armhf buildds.
But ARM hardware with >= 8 GB RAM is prohibitively expensive.

> > Feel free to ask the release team for a definite statement on that
> > if you think I am misunderstanding the position of the release team.
> 
> So what are we really discussing about, severity or RC-ness?
> 
> They are related but they are not exactly the same.
> 
> Is it your claim in this bug that it should not be serious, or you
> agree that it's serious and you only claim that it should not be RC?

You don't make sense here.

"serious" is an RC bug severity.

> I ask because some time ago I was going to report FTBFS bugs on
> unbuildable packages (because of unmet build-depends) and you told me
> that it was too early in the release cycle of buster for that.

This was about not reporting issues *that are not present in unstable*.

It doesn't make sense that other people spend time debugging problems 
that are already fixed in unstable and where the fix might migrate to
testing in a few days.

> Thanks.

cu
Adrian

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