From: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Cc: Gentoo arm AT <arm@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-dns/dnssec-root: Blind stable on arm, critical bug 667774
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 19:12:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdQ38HF6mibTjj5F_0t9JWQzLjTELZCP0aQrq6FkbuBjoEUPg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181012003801.61bae709@sf>
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 4:38 PM Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 17:10:10 +0200
> Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > Let me quote https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f6f6bb91b7f134a121ef9fa1dd504b9ca52c5aa8:
> >
> > > net-dns/dnssec-root: Blind stable on arm, critical bug 667774
> > >
> > > Note that this is a major fail for a stable architecture.
> > > In addition, all arm devboxes are currently offline.
> > >
> > > Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/667774
> > > Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
> > > Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.49, Repoman-2.3.11
> >
> > ...and now let's all sit down and enjoy how stable ARM users lose access
> > to the Internet and have to figure out how to deactivate DNSSEC to get
> > back online. ;]
> >
> > Maybe it is time to destabilize ARM on Gentoo to stop the impression
> > that we really support ARM.
>
> [ CC: arm@ ]
>
> A few points to think about:
>
> 1. I have read this as a direct statement that ARM is not maintained.
> I don't think it is a fair (or constructive) assessment of team's work
> on ARM front.
It's maintained, but in my experience it's often the last architecture
to handle a bug. Often by a wide margin.
Take a look at the shapes these graphs:
https://www.akhuettel.de/gentoo-bugs/arches.php
maekke and zlogene do a lot of arm stabilizations, but I'm sure it's
too much work for two people alone, especially if all the arm devboxes
are offline (WTF?).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-12 2:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-11 15:10 [gentoo-dev] net-dns/dnssec-root: Blind stable on arm, critical bug 667774 Thomas Deutschmann
2018-10-11 15:45 ` Corentin “Nado” Pazdera
2018-10-11 17:04 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2018-10-11 17:07 ` Alec Warner
2018-10-11 18:07 ` Marc Schiffbauer
2018-10-11 15:48 ` Alec Warner
2018-10-11 17:14 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2018-10-12 10:07 ` Jeroen Roovers
2018-10-12 12:50 ` Rich Freeman
2018-10-20 12:19 ` Andreas Sturmlechner
2018-10-20 12:22 ` Mikle Kolyada
2018-10-20 12:26 ` Andreas Sturmlechner
2018-10-20 12:56 ` Mikle Kolyada
2018-10-20 13:29 ` Rich Freeman
2018-10-11 23:38 ` Sergei Trofimovich
2018-10-12 0:40 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2018-10-12 7:28 ` Sergei Trofimovich
2018-10-12 2:12 ` Matt Turner [this message]
2018-10-12 13:47 ` [gentoo-dev] " Mikle Kolyada
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