Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Paul Wise Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_Generic_Python_packages_which_don=E2=80=99t_work_on_al?= =?UTF-8?Q?l_architectures?= Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:30:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Thu Jan 21 13:25:01 2021 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.514 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, FOURLA=0.1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SARE_HEAD_8BIT_SPAM=0.888] autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5.5 X-Google-Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=f3AtoXZVU+eeJtpv7QqG4UFWHC7ikiwNACZP1x0XDJs=; b=YZldh7OTWeL0aLniDL58pPQnCAnRxSmAxJ5r08wRa2fKDK/jSQSDhJJDy5McluH1g6 0+vNzWR24BQDHC32aW3wpdn2sHyLyzUBtEBpoxS0nRXhSlsgihn/abhE+AAEmOjXfxS7 wPZrM3kuA3wq+Msou4MMWvAZ4WFiXQO58RTU0weaM2vdZT+NA2mPCOUDVscewuv9jni5 HWOB+AZ/WBDoPXLn5akh9gDntmz2XxXND6QDiLh/okTsei7LK9GbL6oULiVUnskl4RbY VjlhuwRCSSnH3FNkQfcbGmwYo70Uim9DVw4wnwGC7cpm+lqG1hme+Wu/Zet9usEkGgUD 473w== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532NKAaFj9Pvv+DyOYxJ4x3tbMauYeDjGdzgV+X8bUtGIrWSKdmn RzkF8A5Aos4JCnSVLbStlPQh1ji8lMeBSVRdNPHKqmyWUc4= X-Google-SMTP-Source: ABdhPJzPzF+8/OKHkvUd3sWam3aOrYDxnA8t4VX1Dtqh76iWhxywPDDRJM5OAO2x8Q5+SFopevpxCV8ux9yHgqAKsyE= X-Received: by 2002:a5d:4402:: with SMTP id z2mr7137151wrq.265.1611235486637; Thu, 21 Jan 2021 05:24:46 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/18900 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/CAKTje6EMNRh0bE73h95W9zXiPUPYJpb-DpfTUE_q5MyCsUUrew@mail.gmail.com Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 20 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 13:24:35 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <20210120203941.1a41cc06@heffalump.sk2.org> <87zh12ihk6.fsf@burgos> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:13124 On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 1:12 PM Ole Streicher wrote: > This would be a quite flexible and extendible approach to have packages > installable only where they work. There is precedent for this sort of thing in the isa-support source package, which fails installation when your CPU doesn't support particular ISA extensions like SSE or NEON. It is a reasonable workaround for now, but the packages using the pseudo-packages would still be available, causing confusion when people try to install them. It would be better to just not have them available where they aren't going to work. I also wonder how multi-arch stuff would interact with the pseudo-packages idea. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise