Bug#799036: [Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#799036: openspecfun: please build everywhere

2015-10-19 Thread Graham Inggs
Hi Sébastien On 16 September 2015 at 22:47, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > It builds, but I am not sure it works. I wrote the attached test program and built openspecfun on amd64, armhf and ppc64el. All versions output the same results. > There is some low level stuff in > the rem_pio2/ directory.

Bug#799036: openspecfun: please build everywhere

2015-10-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Benefit of targeting any arch instead of known succesful ones is to help porters identify where work is needed - a.k.a. not hide problems, as we're all abiding to in our Social Contract. You need not be concerned about FTBFS on strange archs affecting the package migrating to testing: Only FTBF

Bug#799036: [Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#799036: Bug#799036: Bug#799036: openspecfun: please build everywhere

2015-09-17 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Le jeudi 17 septembre 2015 à 18:36 +0200, Graham Inggs a écrit : > On 17/09/2015 17:38, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > > I don't understand why this would be better. It seems to me that it > > would just eat buildd resources, with no clear benefit… Or am I > > missing > > something? > > In my opinio

Bug#799036: [Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#799036: Bug#799036: Bug#799036: openspecfun: please build everywhere

2015-09-17 Thread Viral Shah
I would be ok with that too. The rem_pio2 is just thrown in there for convenience - it should be removed eventually. -viral > On 17-Sep-2015, at 10:06 pm, Graham Inggs wrote: > > On 17/09/2015 17:38, Sébastien Villemot wrote: >> I don't understand why this would be better. It seems to me tha

Bug#799036: [Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#799036: Bug#799036: openspecfun: please build everywhere

2015-09-17 Thread Graham Inggs
On 17/09/2015 17:38, Sébastien Villemot wrote: I don't understand why this would be better. It seems to me that it would just eat buildd resources, with no clear benefit… Or am I missing something? In my opinion, restricting architectures is hiding the problem. In the case of openspecfun, it b

Bug#799036: [Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#799036: Bug#799036: openspecfun: please build everywhere

2015-09-17 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Le jeudi 17 septembre 2015 à 17:24 +0200, Graham Inggs a écrit : > I think it would be better if the archs were not restricted and the > package failed on the buildds. I don't understand why this would be better. It seems to me that it would just eat buildd resources, with no clear benefit… Or a

Bug#799036: [Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#799036: openspecfun: please build everywhere

2015-09-17 Thread Graham Inggs
Hi Sébastien On 16/09/2015 22:47, Sébastien Villemot wrote: It builds, but I am not sure it works. There is some low level stuff in the rem_pio2/ directory. For example, in rem_pio2/fpmath.h, there is this comment: "Currently assumes Intel platform", followed by an alternative that seems to assu

Bug#799036: [Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#799036: Bug#799036: openspecfun: please build everywhere

2015-09-16 Thread Viral Shah
Yes, we should restrict. Arm should be possible shortly. We really should move the rem_pio2 to Julia so that this restriction can be lifted. -viral On 17 Sep 2015 2:21 am, "Sébastien Villemot" wrote: > Le mardi 15 septembre 2015 à 08:50 +0200, Graham Inggs a écrit : > > Source: openspecfun > > V

Bug#799036: [Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#799036: openspecfun: please build everywhere

2015-09-16 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Le mardi 15 septembre 2015 à 08:50 +0200, Graham Inggs a écrit : > Source: openspecfun > Version: 0.4-1 > Please do not restrict openspecfun to i386 and amd64. > It built on all architectures in Ubuntu [1]. It builds, but I am not sure it works. There is some low level stuff in the rem_pio2/ dire

Bug#799036: openspecfun: please build everywhere

2015-09-14 Thread Graham Inggs
Source: openspecfun Version: 0.4-1 Hi Maintainer Please do not restrict openspecfun to i386 and amd64. It built on all architectures in Ubuntu [1]. Regards Graham [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openspecfun/0.4-1ubuntu1