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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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Eike |
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