Bug#690014: lintian: please encourage updating to config.guess and config.sub that support arm64

2012-10-08 Thread Paul Wise
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.2 Severity: wishlist User: debian-...@lists.debian.org Usertags: arm64 X-Debbugs-CC: debian-...@lists.debian.org Please encourage updating to config.guess and config.sub that support arm64. The GNU name for arm64 is aarch64. aarch64 was added to

Bug#690014: lintian: please encourage updating to config.guess and config.sub that support arm64

2012-10-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: Please encourage updating to config.guess and config.sub that support arm64. The GNU name for arm64 is aarch64. aarch64 was added to config.guess/config.sub in d6f39af[1] on 2012-02-14. The timestamp for config.sub was next updated in 9240a8a[2] to

Bug#690014: getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems

2012-10-08 Thread Wookey
+++ Paul Wise [2012-10-09 09:27 +0800]: On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 12:26 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Paul, separately, if you haven't already, could you request that the Lintian checks for outdated config.guess/config.sub be updated for whatever version you need for arm64? We could also

Bug#690014: getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems

2012-10-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Wookey woo...@wookware.org writes: I had a go at this yesterday, updating some files but then realising that I didn't understand how lintian is put together. The current tests distinguish between 'out of date' (currently 2006) and 'ancient' (currently 2001), but don't apply equally to .guess