Re: getcontext missing on some architectures, what to do with wvstreams and wvdial?

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Luca Falavigna wrote:
> Hello Release Team,
> 
> I'd like to have some guidance on how to manage bug #521473, which
> affects wvstreams and wvdial because they rely on getcontext and
> setcontext, not available in armel and kfreebsd* implementations of
> eglibc (and this feature won't probably be implemented soon).
> 
> I was thinking about the possibility to limit architectures to the ones
> getcontext/setcontext are available and functional, mangling Arch
> field or by adjusting P-A-S, and asking removal for armel and kfreebsd*
> binaries afterwards.
> 
> Do you agree with this approach, or have better advices?

It's a sane approach if wvdial and wvstreams don't work without it.
Otherwise it would be better to fall back to not using these on
architectures that not support it.

Cheers

Luk