Bug#807020: ghc: FTBFS on armel: selected processor does not support `strd r0, r1, [r7, #64]' in ARM mode

[Joachim Breitner]

Am Sonntag, den 20.12.2015, 13:30 +0100 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
> 
> Well, the person who made the change which broke ghc on armel said that
> and I assume he is working on it in the future. His change, on the other
> hand, improved ghc on armhf. So nothing is saying he is not improved
> ghc on armel, too.

that is close, but not precisely true. Erik aimed to improve GHC on ARM
in general, and accidentally broke it on old ARM (armel in our speak).
I notified him of that problem, and he gave it a shot, but got stuck at
a segfaulting binary. Undoubtly he would have loved to have it fixed,
but could at that point not make progress. So the signal I got from him
was that it is unfortunate that it broke, but given that – in his
opinion – GHC on ARM was in a somewhat broken state before across the
board (after all, he had good reasons to do the change in the first
place), this is only superficially a regression. Also I noticed that he
stopped working on this particular issue. I do not blame him for that:
Quite contrary, I’m grateful for his work.

But the signal was: Upstream considered the ARM situation in 7.10.2,
although superficially compiling, so bad that his fix was of patch-
level-release urgency. Armel was broken, and no one actively and
urgently working on a patch. So therefore, it was only conclusive to
upload that to unstable and – after an early enough warning to d-arm
with none even saying that it would be pity, let along announce that
they would invest time – requests its removals.

In particular, I do not consider these actions premature.


I CCed Erik, not to necessarily to turn this into a wider discussion,
but just to give him the chance to correct any wrong statement I might
have made about what he did or the state of affairs.

Greetings,
Joachim


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