Re: kde packages and hurd
Dear Samuel,
Le 11 septembre 2022 18:46:48 GMT+02:00, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> a écrit :
>Hello,
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>> The main reason stated upstream for not accepting the patch is that they don't want to have to deal with bug reports for platforms for which they don't do CI and don't have porter knowledge. The last thing we want is to load them with the consequences of our own choices that they explicitly declined to follow. That could easily be perceived as a hostile move from us.
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>Err, well, yes for sure, just like we've been doing it in the past
>years?
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>I mean, before the "supported list" feature got introduced in kde,
>packages were building fine or not, and we'd submit patches to fix them
>when not. There is no reason for us to change this habit, and there is
>no reason for bugreports to appear upstream without a proposed patch, at
>least not more than what happened in the past years. Perhaps upstream
>doesn't realize that kde has been building fine on the Hurd for years
>before this, and thus there is no actual "move" here?
I won't agree with your conclusion.
Upstream decided to add a feature to split OSes between supported and unsupported, and we're about to revert that in Debian for one of the unsupported OSes.
But I for one wasn't aware of your work getting fixes upstream so that's really good to know ! As I understand it if someone stepped up to add a CI pipeline upstream for Hurd there are good chances that the patch would get accepted.
And I'm still supportive of the change in Debian anyway as I already wrote.
If all goes well the change will land in Frameworks 5.98 which should reach in Debian in a not too distant future. :-)
Happy hacking !
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Aurélien
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