Re: 64bit startup

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 9:56 PM Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 25 Oct 2023, at 02:40, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 9:33 PM Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@debian.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 25 Oct 2023, at 02:26, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 6:21 PM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> 
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Some update on the 64bit port:
> >>>>
> >>>> - The debian-ports archive now has enough packages to bootstrap a
> >>>> chroot.
> >>>> - A 64bit debian buildd is getting set up, not much work is left there.
> >>>> - The hurd-amd64 wanna-build infrastructure is to be set up in the
> >>>> coming days.
> >>>
> >>> Congrats
> >>>
> >>>> *but*
> >>>>
> >>>> Building packages is not very stable. I have been trying to build
> >>>> gcc-13 for a couple of weeks, without success so far. There are various
> >>>> failures, most often odd errors in the libtool script, which are a sign
> >>>> that the system itself is not behaving correctly. A way to reproduce
> >>>> the issue is to just repeatedly build a package that is using libtool,
> >>>> sooner or later that will fail very oddly.
> >>>
> >>> lol... <https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/GCC> and
> >>
> >> Yeah can we not spread this kind of vile rhetoric here? Regardless of
> >> how much truth is in that, and whether it holds today, that kind of
> >> language isn’t something we should be celebrating and encouraging
> >> others to read. Let’s keep things more civil and on topic.
> >
> > My apologies for offending your delicate sensibilities.
>
> 1. I did not say I was offended. I said it was vile rhetoric. It does
>    not personally offend me, but that does not mean I want to see it
>    being circulated on these kinds of mailing lists.

Your overreaction. It looks like the stuff I would expect to see on
social media, like one of those binary confused persons crying someone
is perpetrating a hate crime because the wrong pronoun (subject?) was
used.

> 2. Even if it did, so what? Per the Debian Mailing Lists’ Code of
>    Conduct, a superset of Debian’s. Off-topic and unwelcoming content is
>    against those. Even if it wasn’t explicitly written down as a rule,
>    though, the decent response to “don’t send unwelcoming content” isn’t
>    “I’m sorry you’re so sensitive” but “sorry, I won’t do it again”. So
>    kindly act decently or don’t contribute.

Exactly. So what?

Some folks have witty humor and appreciate the nostalgia. Others don't.

If you don't like my posts, then plonk me.

Jeff