It's not an arbitrary limit. We don't upgrade builder hardware every year, and in many cases there are multiple virtual builders on each physical machine, so they have limited amounts of RAM. Other vast packages in Ubuntu have no problem with this.
Requiring more than 4GiB of virtual memory to link will prevent you from building in a 32-bit environment anyway, so it's entirely unreasonable to expect that much during a build. Even WebKit -- one of the worst offenders in terms of link-time memory usage -- manages to fit within 4GiB nowadays. There are also architectures where it's simply not practical to have 4GiB of RAM, eg. on ARM devices. It also looks like the package was dropped in Debian, not Ubuntu, so it may be more a problem with the Debian builders's, not Launchpad's Ubuntu builders. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1090819 Title: libshogun-dev upgrade impossible - shogun-octave missing due to 4GB out-of-memory compilation error To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-buildd/+bug/1090819/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
