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Author mirabilos
Recipients Arfrever, BreamoreBoy, benjamin.peterson, georg.brandl, larry, loewis, mark.dickinson, mirabilos, pitrou, schwab, skrah, tim.peters
Date 2014-04-04.08:06:19
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Message-id <Pine.BSM.4.64L.1404040755120.1667@herc.mirbsd.org>
In-reply-to <87zjk1fus1.fsf@igel.home>
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Andreas Schwab dixit:

>Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> writes:
>
>>Sorry, what? You seek to veto an upstream Python bug fix because it will 
>>lead to correct binaries that a certain emulator can't handle? That 

Yes, because of the value ARAnyM has for Linux/m68k development
and especially testing – for example, considering that there are
no porterboxen, we can, currently, just tell people needing one
to install a VM themselves, and even provide images from which
to start.

>>Furthermore, Andreas' bug fix was to be merged for python 3.5. Debian is 
>>not obliged to use that version with that patch up until Aranym gets 

Debian is consistent across architectures. (Well, mostly.) This
patch changes a known-good but less optimal behaviour (using the
old dtoa routines) by behaviour that matches the other architectures
even better but only iff the FPU (FPU emulation) supports changing
precision. Which it didn’t last time I looked.

>>fixed.
>
>Aranym *is* fixed.

What *precise* version of ARAnyM is the first to have been released
with a fix for this issue?

I never got any response to my message to upstream in which I asked
for a release: <Pine.BSM.4.64L.1403211905340.7386@herc.mirbsd.org>
(No response *at all*, mind you. Not even an ACK or “no”.)

Once we do have a fixed version, we can communicate that around.
(Note that “have” includes having e.g. backports to stable and
several old *buntu versions at least.)

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
<igli> exceptions: a truly awful implementation of quite a nice idea.
<igli> just about the worst way you could do something like that, afaic.
<igli> it's like anti-design.  <mirabilos> that too… may I quote you on that?
<igli> sure, tho i doubt anyone will listen ;)
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