Bug#963250: openblas: Please build on armel

Adrian Bunk bunk at debian.org
Sun Jun 21 15:28:40 BST 2020


On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 02:54:22PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> Le dimanche 21 juin 2020 à 14:40 +0300, Adrian Bunk a écrit :
> > Source: openblas
> > Version: 0.3.9+ds-2
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: patch
> > 
> > A debdiff for building openblas on armel is attached.
> 
> What’s the point of building openblas on armel? 
> 
> Openblas is a highly optimized BLAS library, which only makes sense on
> machines with hardware floating point.
> 
> For armel, reference BLAS (as provided by src:lapack) is probably as
> efficient.

I don't think "efficiency" is relevant when using either on armel hardware...

What I am interested in is that reverse dependencies behave 
(and break) the same on armel as they do on armhf.

> Best,

cu
Adrian



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