Re: Bug#995614: guile-3.0: Please build with --without-threads on alpha to fix FTBFS

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> writes:

> The alpha architecture is not part of any distribution which is why this
> argument is moot. I was not asking for this option to be set to an release
> architecture.
>
> Also, *if* we break the ABI, we can just rebuild all affected packages. We
> do that with binNMUs for various reverse dependencies all the time.
>
> Finally, without this change, guile will not work on alpha at all. So, we
> cannot break the ABI in the first place, because we didn't have a properly
> working guile package on alpha yet.

To be clear, I'm not taking any position yet on what I think we
can/should do.  I'm just describing what I've found and what I think the
constraints are.

And while we can, of course, rebuild all the reverse deps (presumably
only acceptable for testing/sid), doing so may still break things for
anyone outside debian who's been relying on our packages (if we'd ever
had any in testing -- sounds like maybe we haven't for 3.0 for alpha).

Maybe that ends up being the best of bad choices, but I just wanted to
make sure we included that concern in our deliberations.  i.e. I suspect
it'd be better not to break testing like that if we could avoid it, even
if technically acceptable.

Thanks