Re: things to do (WAS: arm64, ppc64el, mips64el: please provide ready-to-use VM images)

[Daniel Neis <danielneis@gmail.com>]

Hello, everybody

thanks for the responses!

Looking at the list of Important Bugs with Patches for the arm64 archtecture,

let's say we pick one like this that is for nautilus-share package:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=726302

It would help if I can setup the qemu, download the package source code, apply the patch, test if it works (how?) and post the results back on bugzilla ?

Kind regards,

Daniel

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Wookey <wookey@wookware.org> wrote:

+++ Edmund Grimley Evans [2015-11-10 10:08 +0000]:
>
> Does anyone else have any suggestions?

Looking through the 'Auto-not-for-us' list:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=arm64&suite=sid
might well reveal things that are not being built on arm64 for no good reason other than inertia.

Some will be genuinely x86 (or other arch)-specific, but I expect
quite a few just need their arch lists updating, so we at least get build attempts, even if things are actually broken for some reason.

This list shows a pile of general arm64/arch-update bugs that still need uploading or fixing:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-arm@lists.debian.org;tag=arm64

Quite a few of those (49) have a patch available.

Wookey
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