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On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 05:11:17PM +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: |
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> Am 2020-03-18 15:54, schrieb William Hubbs: |
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> > All, |
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> > this came up again on the recent thread about dropping non x86/amd64 |
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> > support for python packages, and I want to bring it up again on its own |
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> > thread. |
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> > How often do architecture specific bugs really exist in languages like |
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> > perl, python etc? From what I've seen they are pretty rare. Not to |
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> > mention, |
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> > if we found one somewhere, we could adjust keywords as necessary. |
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> I'm not judging this proposal, just a data point: packages that e.g. |
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> read from /proc, especially /proc/cpuinfo, get easily blow up on |
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> architecture changes. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/663424 for an example. |
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Sure, but if you run into something like that you just don't use the |
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noarch keyword for those packages. |
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Thanks, |
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William |
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