Re: Usage of real m68k hardware

2018-03-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Andreas, On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 12:17 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 08:11:04PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: >> Or is there some shortcoming of the BTS that is driving this? > > I think "wontfix" is exactly the feature of the BTS that was invented to > solve

Re: Usage of real m68k hardware

2018-03-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Finn, On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 08:11:04PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > Is there actual value in increasing the closed bug count with "wontfix"? For me there is some value. Last year I've closed more than 300 bugs in the Debian Med team and in my Debian work more than 1300[1] just in this team.

Re: Usage of real m68k hardware

2018-03-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Chris! On 03/28/2018 06:01 PM, Chris Lamb wrote: > May I gently and cordially ask for a toning down of the rhethoric > in this thread? :) Yes, of course. But Andreas hit a nerve with this on me. This project has cost me lots of blood, tears and sweat and if someone is asking for it to be

Re: Usage of real m68k hardware

2018-03-28 Thread Finn Thain
On Wed, 28 Mar 2018, Andreas Tille wrote: > I'm personally drawng the decision that I will tag any bug that concerns > scientific software (which is my main focus) and that bug is on m68k > only as wontfix and will set severity to minor. I'm sorry but my focus > is on real use cases and

Re: Usage of real m68k hardware

2018-03-28 Thread Chris Lamb
Dear -devel, […] May I gently and cordially ask for a toning down of the rhethoric in this thread? :) Whilst everyone would agree that the m68k port has its problems and is certainly capable of imposing undue drain on developer time, I'm sure most would also understand and perhaps even relate

Re: Usage of real m68k hardware

2018-03-28 Thread Carsten Strotmann
Hi, Andreas Tille writes: > Getting fake bugs of severity important due to the fact that no real > hardware is used since it is to weak is not really convincing for > maintainers to spent time on it. the new 68080 CPU core might be powerful enough to build on real hardware

Re: Usage of real m68k hardware

2018-03-28 Thread Laurent Vivier
Le 28/03/2018 à 10:10, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : > On 03/28/2018 04:59 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: >> I see no point in your repeated "to be honest" and blame others about >> low quality. If in doubt read these three bug logs: >> >>#882555, #887680, #887682 >> >> All say >> >>this

Re: Usage of real m68k hardware

2018-03-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 03/28/2018 04:59 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > I see no point in your repeated "to be honest" and blame others about > low quality. If in doubt read these three bug logs: > >#882555, #887680, #887682 > > All say > >this failure turned out to stem from a problem with the build >

Re: Usage of real m68k hardware

2018-03-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 03:50:52PM +0900, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > To be honest, lots of that scientific code has questionable quality > and I have seen lots of packages from the Debian Science team with > hard-coded compiler options and other non-sense. So, to be honest, > I could

Re: Usage of real m68k hardware

2018-03-28 Thread Ingo Jürgensmann
On 28.03.2018 08:38, Andreas Tille wrote: I conclude that the Debian project is running no real m68k hardware any more (please correct me if I'm wrong) and we are possibly doing a service for some users who potentially also run qemu (wild guess of mine). I'm wondering when it might be time to

Re: Usage of real m68k hardware

2018-03-28 Thread Carsten Strotmann
On 28.03.18 09:01, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I don't think Andreas is on this list. My fault, I've resend the mail to him directly. Thanks for pointing this out. -- CS signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Usage of real m68k hardware

2018-03-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 03/28/2018 03:52 PM, Carsten Strotmann wrote: > I use m68k Debian on real m68k hardware (but not R or other scientific > software). I know at least four other people that also run/use Debian > m68k on real hardware. > > My focus use of m68k is tools and development software (interpreters,

Re: Usage of real m68k hardware

2018-03-28 Thread Carsten Strotmann
Hello Andreas, On 28.03.18 08:38, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > recently some R packages received bugs that seem to stem from a problem > with the build setup (specifically, a qemu bug). When I asked back in > one of the bugs[1] whether there are real m68k users I've got the answer > > ...

Re: Usage of real m68k hardware

2018-03-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 03/28/2018 03:38 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > I conclude that the Debian project is running no real m68k hardware any > more (please correct me if I'm wrong) and we are possibly doing a > service for some users who potentially also run qemu (wild guess of > mine). I'm wondering when it might be

Usage of real m68k hardware

2018-03-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, recently some R packages received bugs that seem to stem from a problem with the build setup (specifically, a qemu bug). When I asked back in one of the bugs[1] whether there are real m68k users I've got the answer ... there are still some users with actual hardware, but the