Bug#849536: limesuite FTBFS on mips and mipsel: error: undefined reference to `__atomic_load_8'

[Andreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org>]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:18:07PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> That's correct. But I usually rather prefer fixing a package everywhere
> than just saying "Works on amd64, I don't care about the rest because
> I don't use anything else.".
>
> My point is, if you upload it now, you have more testing time for the
> package on all release architectures being part of testing and more
> time to make sure the patch is not breaking anything else.

If I upload now, it won't be part of the stretch release. I'd definitely
have a lot of time for testing then, but who guarantees that mips and
mipsel will still be release architectures for buster?

So I'd rather have it work on all release architectures and actually be
in the release.


Andreas