[Openstack-devel] PyPy out of date on many arch

[Thomas Goirand]

On 11/22/2013 05:12 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> First, thanks for working on the PyPy package.
> 
> PyPy is a dependency for many packages in Debian. On my side, I need
> python-simplejson which depends on pypy, then python-wsme depends on
> python-simplejson, and last, most of my OpenStack packages depend on
> python-wsme. So indirectly, I need PyPy to be working, and migrated to
> testing. Though it has been stuck in Sid for 70 days. As a consequence,
> python-simplejson, python-wsme & many OpenStack packages can't migrate
> to testing as well.
> 
> I had a try with porter boxes, indeed, on armhf and mipsel, PyPy is not
> available.
> 
> Do you know what's going on? Do you think a fix could be done anytime
> soon? If it can't be fixed for armhf and mipsel, could you declare this
> in the debian/control, so that the packages can migrate to testing?
> 
> Last, do you need help?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)

As sgran pointed out on IRC, there's no mipsel machine with 4GB of RAM,
so there's no chance that PyPy will build there. So I would suggest that
you just declare PyPy not working on this arch.

Thomas