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Subject: Re: Why is IceCat now only 'supported' on Intel-systems?
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 23:58:41 +0100
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Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 09:39:40PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> According to:
>>=20
>>   https://hydra.gnu.org/eval/109381?filter=3Dicecat#tabs-removed
>>=20
>> the jobs for icecat on armhf and mips64el were removed in evaluation
>> 109381 (corresponding to commit 663d5b5), but were present in the
>> previous evaluation 109380 (commit cd65d60).
>>=20
>> Can anyone tell me why this happened?
>>=20
>> I guess that the 'supported-systems' field of some package that 'icecat'
>> depends on was recently changed, but I was unable to find anything
>> obvious by grepping through the output of "git log -p".
>>=20
>> Debian includes Firefox packages for 'armhf' and 'mips64el', so it's
>> obviously possible to get it working on those platforms.
>>=20
>> I find it disturbing that we seem to be in the habit of removing
>> non-Intel systems from 'supported-systems' fields in packages that other
>> distros are able to get working on non-Intel.  These are bugs to be
>> fixed, not swept under the rug to get them out of sight.
>>=20
>>       Mark
>
> It turns out libjpeg-turbo depends on nasm, which was incorrectly marked
> as only supporting Intel hardware.

Again, there=E2=80=99s no such problem on current master AFAICS:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(guix)
scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(gnu packages assembly)
scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(gnu packages gnuzilla)
scheme@(guile-user)> (package-supported-systems icecat)
$15 =3D ("x86_64-linux" "i686-linux" "armhf-linux" "mips64el-linux")
scheme@(guile-user)> (package-supported-systems nasm)
$16 =3D ("x86_64-linux" "i686-linux" "armhf-linux" "mips64el-linux")
scheme@(guile-user)> (package-transitive-supported-systems icecat)
$17 =3D ("x86_64-linux" "i686-linux" "armhf-linux" "mips64el-linux")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

and <https://hydra.gnu.org/eval/109381?filter=3Dicecat>.

Am I missing something?

Ludo=E2=80=99.