mplayer2 FTBFS on sparc

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Sun Oct 9 20:50:39 UTC 2011


On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 09:46:02PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On So, Okt 09, 2011 at 21:05:56 (CEST), Jurij Smakov wrote:
> 
> > I thought about it, and I don't really see why we would keep the 
> > linux32 wrapper on the buildds. It made sense in the past, when we 
> > supported sparc32 and really wanted to guarantee that if a package 
> > has CPU type autodetection, we would get the code which works on both 
> > sparc32 and sparc64 machines. These days it probably just leads to a 
> > ton of unnecessarily-unoptimized binaries in the archive.
> 
> Indeed, please notify me (e.g., with a wishlist bugreport) when the
> buildds get changed, because I have to revert this change then:

I basicly have 2 questions:
- Do all sparc porters agree that I should drop the linux32 from
  the buildds?  And will people fix things if it breaks?
- Do you still plan to have a (full) release of sparc for wheezy, or will
  you try to move to sparc64?


Kurt




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