On Mon, 2018-03-26 at 19:42 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, on lun. 26 mars 2018 19:20:04 +0200, wrote: > > > > What is really wrong is that Matthias Klose removed the Hurd patches. > > Sure, but see what he wrote in the changlog: he found the patches > "unmaintained", i.e. I guess he got an issue with it, and couldn't > afford spending the time to fix it, and thus just dropped them. That's > only normal for something that hasn't been upstreamed so far.
Me being AFK for a month gives him reason to claim the the patches are un- maintined. Not nice :( > > Adding them back is a piece of cake for you (or him), see #894080. > > It's not: it means sorting out from your three mails what actually needs > checking in, understanding what you mean by > “ > Finding the reverting commit and applying it > gcc.git-b12c2c48c2c6aa1db9e6c50f6b26330deeee9caf.patch gcc+gccgo builds > fine again. > ” > whether it's something that needs to be done on top of the patches, > scratching one's head whether “I will report the build status when the > latest version is built. (an eventually provide updated patches)” means > one should wait for that to happen etc. All this stuff is from earlier mails. Additionally the versions built with the patches were reported. > Then eventually try to build the whole thing, possibly realize it > doesn't actually build, etc. etc. Not a piece of cake, really. As I wrote in that bug report, all needed patches are there. And as the bug report says: gcc-8 (8-8-20180321-1 and earlier) was successfully built.