Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian (was: Re: coordination between lintian/piuparts/adequate)

On Fri Dec 27, 2024 at 10:49 PM CET, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote:
> hi Jonathan,
>
> On Thu Dec 12, 2024 at 3:36 PM CET, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
[..]
> > "likely in many ports too" is dancing around the fact that it *doesn't* 
> > run on at least one port, hence Holger's complaint.
>
> which one? https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=golang-defaults
> suggests that go is available in all ports and the issue is that many are on a
> several years' old version. I chose to use a couple of stdlib packages that are
> "only" 1.5y old. the use of those packages could be trivially eliminated 

I was wrong: gccgo-14 is not available for hppa, m68k and sh4 (and neither is,
of course, golang-go).

fwiw, adequate as of 0.17.5 targets the latest go version that is implemented by
gccgo (which severely lags behind golang-go), so that it builds for all of the
other ports

I still believe what I wrote earlier though:

> but I'm
> rather skeptical that having adequate run on those ports is the most pressing
> matter for those ports (as I wrote earlier: most adequate checks are arch-indep
> and those that are not, are unlikely to manifest only in ports).
>
> > > on a meta level: I find it incredible that this conversation needs to 
> > > be had at all, given the increasing median age of Debian contributors, 
> > > and the limited popularity of perl among younger people

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