Re: hardinfo status.
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 02:38:17PM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> >0.3.7pre-4, however, did build on alpha, arm, ia64, m68k and s390, and the
> >corresponding binaries are still in unstable. The maintainer has already
> >requested their removal (#385781) a few days ago, so it's currently waiting
> >for that to be actioned.
> In other words, the real status is that there are old binaries in
> architectures that aren't listed in hardinfo anymore and once #385781
> is closed, it will be able to move into testing, right?
It's correct that as long as 385781 is open, the package isn't going to
migrate into testing.
But as an alpha porter I object to 385781 being closed without there having
been any consultation of debian-alpha. I don't see any reason that
architectures such as alpha, arm, and ia64 that clearly have the interfaces
hardinfo is intended to apply to should suddenly lose support for it as a
consequence of dubious upstream code abstractions. I.e., the *only*
differences between any of the existing arch/linux/foo trees in this package
are in the processor.h file, which is itself unpleasantly non-headerlike,
consisting entirely of static function definitions.
I would probably be more than happy to write up processor_get_info() and
computer_get_processor() routines for alpha, but the additional busywork
imposed on porters by the poor overall code layout bothers me. What could
have been a single build-time define and a C file with #ifdef'ed
architecture-specific routines is instead a symlink farm requiring manual
porting work just to get the package to recognize a new architecture
name(!). Is this really an improvement over the portable code currently in
testing, for any architecture?
BTW, the sparc binaries are silently broken:
In file included from computer.c:70:
./arch/this/processor.h: In function 'computer_get_processor':
./arch/this/processor.h:44: warning: implicit declaration of function 'get_processor_strfamily'
mv -f computer.so modules
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=hardinfo&ver=0.4.1-2&arch=sparc&stamp=1151034855&file=log&as=raw
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