Debian, Rust, and librsvg

Posted Nov 20, 2018 6:02 UTC (Tue) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359)
In reply to: Debian, Rust, and librsvg by roc
Parent article: Debian, Rust, and librsvg

This just causes more fragmentation. It’s also hard to get those separate branches packaged. We, in Debian, really want to have *one* source tree for a package, that is used on all architectures. (Reminds me to kick that one maintainer whose packages regularily FTBFS on some architectures because some of the patch files are applied only conditionally…)

Debian, Rust, and librsvg

Posted Nov 20, 2018 18:43 UTC (Tue) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link] (1 responses)

If Debian strongly values both "one source tree per package" and "support practically-unused architectures no matter what the cost", then I guess Debian should maintain the LLVM branch to make that possible.

What is *not* reasonable is for the vanishingly small number of people who care about these niche architectures to push the costs of supporting those architectures onto others.

Debian, Rust, and librsvg

Posted Nov 20, 2018 22:07 UTC (Tue) by rodgerd (guest, #58896) [Link]

Pretty much.

And, like it or not (and I don't, particularly), LLVM is becoming the compiler of choice for more and more software.