Hello, 2013/8/21 Joey Hess <[email protected]>: > Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
>> armel has been one of the sore points of maintaining WebKit in Debian. >> It often fails to build the package because of lack of memory or disk >> space. I'm told by my colleague Hector Oron that WebKit's utility for >> armel is quite limited, given it's often used headless rather than >> providing a graphical user interface of some kind. > Sounds like the same kind of "surely noone uses this" rationalization we > always see when going back to see why some package we use got removed > from Debian. The fundamental cause for the build failure seems to be memory limitation, while webkit requires all the available RAM in buildd (1.5GB), is uses all the SWAP (3GB) and final linking stage explodes only after 3d 14h 13m or so [1]... we could still try to make swap bigger and re-try the build, but certainly we are reaching buildd hardware limit here. This is not the lame excuse of "surely noone uses this" rationalization we always see because someone does not feel like wasting time on fixing a bug on non his preferred architecture. However, more powerful hardware is now commercially available, Debian recently got donated 3 nodes on Calxeda servers with Quad core Cortex-A9 with 4GB of RAM, however those were planned to be used for armhf port (maybe as two buildds and one porterbox), and current infrastructure does not easily allow to special case package builds per buildd. Having said the above, we are still working on trying to fix the build of webkitgtk/armel, but no promises here. 2013/8/21 peter green <[email protected]>: > The bigger question IMO though is how many reverse dependencies does the > variant of webkit built by the "webkit" source package (which is only one of > several webkit variants in debian) have and how strong are those reverse > dependencies. libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 Reverse Depends: zenity yelp libyelp0 xiphos libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev libwebkitgtk-3.0-0-dbg gir1.2-webkit-3.0 gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 shotwell sflphone-gnome librhythmbox-core6 gtkpod libgtk-3-0 gnome-sushi libgoa-1.0-0 evolution-rss epiphany-extensions epiphany-browser nautilus-sendto-empathy empathy dwb libdevhelp-3-0 devhelp cairo-dock-weblets-plug-in anjuta libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 Reverse Depends: xxxterm xtrkcad webkit2pdf libwebkit1.1-cil webkit-image-gtk libwebkitgtk-dev libwebkitgtk-1.0-0-dbg gir1.2-webkit-1.0 gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-1.0 uzbl surf python-webkit python-jswebkit osmo miro midori maildir-utils-extra luakit liferea libproxy0 lekhonee-gnome libghc-webkit-dev gphpedit gnucash gmpc-plugins gimp geany-plugin-webhelper claws-mail-fancy-plugin bibledit-gtk banshee claws-mail-fancy-plugin Cheers, [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=webkitgtk&arch=armel -- Héctor Orón -.. . -... .. .- -. -.. . ...- . .-.. --- .--. . .-. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
