Bug#779482: severity of 779482 is grave

[Gilles Filippini]

Markus Koschany a écrit le 05/10/2015 13:02 :
> Am 05.10.2015 um 12:48 schrieb Emmanuel Bourg:
>> Le 05/10/2015 12:18, Markus Koschany a écrit :
> I think it's ok to initially build with arch:any as long as there is
> sufficient support from upstream. However if it turns out that some
> arch-dependent packages are unusable and upstream does not intend to fix
> this, we should not claim that we can. I think restricting the build to
> supported architectures is sensible then.
> 
> Like I said I don't know if those architectures are supported now. Back
> in April Tony wrote that upstream has started to work on architecture
> support.
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=779482#21
> 
> Perhaps something has changed in the latest version?

Yes, support was added for some architectures. Unfortunately not for
ppc64el.

BTW building gluegen2 for unsupported architectures leads to bugs like
#798652. It is quite misleading for our users to see scilab available on
ppc64el while not functional at all.

Thanks,

_g.

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