kde packages and hurd

[Aurélien COUDERC]

Le 9 septembre 2022 18:41:34 GMT+02:00, "Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer" <perezmeyer at gmail.com> a écrit :
>Hi Samuel!
>
>Explicitly CCing Aurélien who is the c-e-m maintainer.
>
>On Sun, 4 Sept 2022 at 17:18, Samuel Thibault
><samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> KDE packages used to build fine on the Hurd port.
>>
>> Since recently, we have started seeing this build error:
[…]
>> I wonder what debian KDE maintainers' position is: would it be fine
>> to just make debian/rules with KF_IGNORE_PLATFORM_CHECK set for some
>> platforms? Or add the platform in extra-cmake-modules and add the
>> supported platform as a patch in the packages?
>
>Well, Hurd is a non-official arch, so I guess a patch in
>extra-cmake-modules could be added and you will have to deal with
>FTBFSs, etc. Is that suitable for you?

Yes, we quickly discussed this with Samuel over IRC and I said I was supportive of the idea.
I still wanted to have some more input from the team so here I have at least one bit. :-)

Besides FTBFS in Debian I insisted with Samuel that the porters have a minimal interest in following up Hurd related bug reports that may end-up in the upstream bugtracker as a consequence of our patch.

The main reason stated upstream for not accepting the patch is that they don't want to have to deal with bug reports for platforms for which they don't do CI and don't have porter knowledge. The last thing we want is to load them with the consequences of our own choices that they explicitly declined to follow. That could easily be perceived as a hostile move from us.


Happy hacking !
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Aurélien