[Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#799036: Bug#799036: Bug#799036: Bug#799036: openspecfun: please build everywhere

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le jeudi 17 septembre 2015 à 18:36 +0200, Graham Inggs a écrit :
> On 17/09/2015 17:38, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > I don't understand why this would be better. It seems to me that it
> > would just eat buildd resources, with no clear benefit… Or am I 
> > missing
> > something?
> 
> In my opinion, restricting architectures is hiding the problem.
> 
> In the case of openspecfun, it builds in seconds (even on ARM) so 
> wouldn't be much of a burden on the buildds.
> 
> If the build logs show a failure, it may attract the attention of 
> someone with an interest in that architecture and the problem could 
> get 
> fixed.

Quoting policy §5.6.8:

”Specifying a list of architectures or architecture wildcards other
than any is for the minority of cases where a program is not portable
or is not useful on some architectures. Where possible, the program
should be made portable instead.”

I consider that I'm using the architecture field in perfect compliance
with policy. The package is currently not portable, so I've restricted
the architecture field. Anyone is of course welcome to provide patches
to make it portable.

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