Bug#907829: p4est: FTBFS on single CPU machines

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 06:13:13PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
>...
> > 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.
> 
> This is double standards again. Not being able to build all packages
> on the baseline has never been an excuse to not submit baseline
> violations (when we find them) as serious.
> 
> You do that, and I fully support it, but for some strange reason
> assumming multi-core is "ok to the point of downgrading this bug"
> while assuming, say, SSE on i386, is not.
> 
> Please explain that.

building != running

And I am getting really annoyed of your double standard regarding
build requirements.

If a package cannot be built on a single-core machine with 256 MB RAM 
due to the number of CPUs, you claim this would be an enormous problem 
equal to dropping support for running Debian on that machine.

But if a package cannot be built on a single-core machine with
256 MB RAM due to the amount of RAM, this is apparently fine for you.

The result is the same in both cases - a machine supported by Debian 
cannot build a package.

Feel free to talk to ask the release team if you think I misinterpret
them when saying that single-core FTBFS are not RC, there is nothing
left to be discussed between you and me on that topic.

> Thanks.

cu
Adrian

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