[Openstack-devel] PyPy out of date on many arch

[YunQiang Su]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
We have a mips(64)el porterbox with 18GB RAM.
Maybe I can build pypy for mipsel manually by pbuilder.
Will it a good idea?
>
> Thomas
>
>
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