Bug#741190: qt4-x11: Improve atomic support on parisc
On Wednesday 12 March 2014 18:59:25 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 March 2014 22:39:17 Helge Deller wrote:
> > Hi Lisandro,
> >
> > On 03/12/2014 10:18 PM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Fully understandable.
> >
> > > So the best path here is pushing it upstream :)
> >
> > Yes, sure.
> >
> > The only reason why I proposed that is, that each time when you push a new
> > qt4 through the debian buildds, we are in trouble on hppa because I have
> > to
> > kill the build process manually and trigger Dave to build qt4 with his
> > patch manually.
> >
> > If we forget this we will run into unresolved symbols with *all* our
> > already built packages which depend on qt4 (e.g. all KDE apps).
> >
> > So, I'm just asking you to add it to your patch repo until we really can
> > resolve it.
>
> This is fully understandable too. But if I lower the threshold for you, I
> need to lower it for everyone, and then I get swamped on a myriad of
> patches that I can't push upstream.
>
> The arm64 case might be a game changer if we can push 3rd party [0] BSD
> patches directly, even if we need to get trough Lars each time.
>
> [0] Read this as "not wrote by the person pushing it to gerrit"
And by the way, going through gerrit sounds more like an inversion than a
problem if you need to stop the buildd every time someone of the team pushed
Qt :)
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