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Bug#741190: qt4-x11: Improve atomic support on parisc



On Wednesday 12 March 2014 21:57:37 Helge Deller wrote:
> On 03/12/2014 03:27 AM, John David Anglin wrote:
> >>> I also don't want to become a Qt developer. I have enough on my
> >>> plate with GCC and Linux.
> >>> 
> >>> Helge, do you have any thoughts about this?
> 
> I would be interested to come up with a good fix, and even submit it via
> the required CLA, but right now I'm pretty busy with so many things, that
> I don't want to take another one in addition.
> Maybe in a few weeks.
> 
> > I'm fully willing to make the contribution available under any "GNU
> > License Terms".
> 
> Or BSD-license? Would that help? (Maybe not because of the copyright
> licensing?)

We are currently testing that with some aarch64 (arm64) patches. But this 
means it has to go though the Chief Engineer Lars Knoll, so it's a bottleneck.

> > It looks to me like it's best for me to continue to patch the binary
> > uploads given the Qt CLA.
> 
> Or alternatively if Debian could carry your patch until we get it resolved
> somehow in the future (either by me or you) ?

We try our best to avoid any delta with upstream, both to get an upstream ACK 
both the patch to prevent possible problems and to avoid to let the patch 
rotten in our repos.

So the best path here is pushing it upstream :)

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