Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction
Ah, I see. So as I understand it, the fix was applied to upstream
experimental, and will in time make its way downstream to unstable.
That's why it would be closed as fixed, right?
So it's useless only for the time being.
Noah
On Tue, 2019-03-05 at 08:17 +1300, Michael Cree wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 06:53:56PM +0000, Noah Wolfe wrote:
> > @Michael, if I may ask (and if I have this right), if the fix was
> > simply a name change for a newer version, and effectively useless
> > for
> > us, what was the point of changing it, and what can be done to fix
> > our
> > issue?
>
> The baseline fix was applied to x265 in the experimental
> distribution,
> not in unstable. One could argue that you could just install x265
> from experimental but that won't work either, because you would need
> to rebuild all packages that depend on the x265 library in unstable
> to be able to use the experimental x265. So this fix is practically
> useless to anyone running unstable but the maintainer gets to close
> the bug report as fixed.
>
> Cheers
> Michael.
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