Re: Why is IceCat now only 'supported' on Intel-systems?

[Efraim Flashner]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 09:39:40PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> According to:
> 
>   https://hydra.gnu.org/eval/109381?filter=icecat#tabs-removed
> 
> 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).
> 
> Can anyone tell me why this happened?
> 
> 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".
> 
> Debian includes Firefox packages for 'armhf' and 'mips64el', so it's
> obviously possible to get it working on those platforms.
> 
> 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.
> 
>       Mark

It turns out libjpeg-turbo depends on nasm, which was incorrectly marked
as only supporting Intel hardware. I think the hard thing is that, while
we can read the source and make guesses at fixing build errors, without
access to the hardware its hard to know if any changes made actually
result in a building package.

Anyway, Debian builds nasm on all architectures, so I removed that field
from the package. Looking back on the nasm thread, it looked like
everyone worked together to make the mistake :).

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