Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-09-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Russ Allbery, le Thu 03 Sep 2009 13:32:46 -0700, a écrit : In specific, our information security office (rightfully) considers the relationship between system and list of installed packages to be confidential data because of the potential use of such data in determining which systems to attack

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Matt Turner, le Mon 15 Nov 2010 19:51:10 -0500, a écrit : On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: What's the actual problem --as-needed is trying to solve? The answer is mainly unwanted libraries being linked in as a result of using pkg-config (and various

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steve Langasek, le Tue 16 Nov 2010 09:14:40 -0800, a écrit : I don't argue that this makes --as-needed *correct* as a default, but I think it's clear how using --as-needed may benefit a distribution in terms of reducing churn when library dependencies change. We agree on the second part, but

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Florian Weimer, le Tue 16 Nov 2010 19:49:57 +0100, a écrit : * Roland McGrath: I can't see why you think --as-needed is fundamentally wrong or unnecessary. It is fundamentally wrong because -lfoo means I demand that the initializers of libfoo.so run, whether or not I called anything

Re: GCC-4.5 as the default for (at least some) architectures

2011-04-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Kurt Roeckx, le Tue 26 Apr 2011 21:28:57 +0200, a écrit : Is there a reason not to switch the remaining (release) arches (ia64, kfreebsd-*, sparc, s390)? Maybe hurd-i386 too? There's no real reason to defer hurd-i386, as it's basically like i386, and the key packages (glibc/hurd/gnumach)

Re: changing the java default to java7, and dropping java support for some architectures

2013-05-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Matthias Klose, le Mon 06 May 2013 16:22:30 +0200, a écrit : - hurd never had openjdk support, and afaik, nobody is working on that. There has been work towards this, notably by Jeremie Koenig. I don't know the status, we just have not made it a strong priority so far. Samuel -- To

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

2017-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steven Chamberlain, on mer. 12 avril 2017 13:55:08 +0100, wrote: > I expect there might be problems trying to build linux arches from a > kfreebsd host. But we should try to find out, and then maybe fix it. FWIW, I have been building hurd-i386 images from a linux box for a long time without