Re: core-updates, next release, and all that

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 06:27:12PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
>> Indeed. After disabling this one test, the package builds on my mips machine.
>> I pushed and will start a new evaluation of core-updates.
>
> Drawback: This essentially recompiles all of core-updates.

Not OK.

> If we consider mips64el as a "release critical" architecture in Debian
> parlance, I would say we have no choice. Otherwise, we could also
> revert my commit and merge core-updates now.

What about reverting, and instead modifying in a mips64el conditional?
As in:

  (arguments
    `(#:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases
                 ,@(if (string-prefix? "mips64el" (%current-system))
                       '((add-before 'check 'disable-the-thing …))
                       '())
                 …)))

Ludo’.