Re: unbreaking LibreOffices tests on at least release architectures

Hi,

Am 18.06.23 um 21:28 schrieb Rob Landley:
> Of course I mean "getting those architectures removed from unstable"
>> *for libreoffice*.
> This is the same GPLv3 package that Red Hat just dropped support for?
GPLv3 doesn't have anything to do with this here.
> https://lwn.net/Articles/933525/
Indeed.
> When gcc switched to GPLv3 llvm appeared. When Samba switched to GPLv3 Apple
> wrote their own and Linux grew the ksmbd in-kernel server.
>
> Three years ago Samba maintainer Jeremy Allison lamented that "Both GPLv3 and
> the AGPL have been rejected soundly by most developers" and talked about how he
> regretted the move and the damage it had done to the project,
> https://archive.org/details/copyleftconf2020-allison

Can we please talk about the actual issue at and - that is not the license.


That is the tests being broken on anything except amd64 and arm64.

> How long has the problem you're treating as a crisis been brewing?

Far too long, as I said it was swept under the carpet for too long.


Regards,


Rene