On 22 December 2014 at 09:21, Adam Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all, > I was recently asked on irc if I knew what we going on with > Thunderbird in EPEL7 and I hadn't looked at it in a while but it looks > like the latest build failed: > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=597057 > > However, it appears that this is because the version of nss-static > (nss-devel) on PPC64 is too old to build the latest version of > Thunderbird. This appears to still be the case today after more than 2 > weeks after the update hit the RHEL7 x86_64 repos. I don't know why > RHEL on PPC64 is lacking this but I'm of the opinion that we could at > least in the mean time build an ExclusiveArch version of the latest > (31.3.0) Thunderbird for x86_64 and if/when PPC64 catches up then > there could be a bump in the spec file and a build for that arch as > well. > > Thanks for finding this. I agree with this for several reasons: 1) PPC isn't a high use platform. 2) Current PPC (non-le) are not really desktop oriented hardware but server only hardware. Thunderbird on PPC (and many desktop applications) on PPC do not make a lot of sense unless someone is actively using PPC and taking care of those packages. -- Stephen J Smoogen.
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