Philipp Thomas wrote:from the changelog (where you
could have looked yourself ...).
I need to be convinced that sort threading works on all platforms openSUSE/SLES support in order to disable that patch.
I wasn't aware that openSUSE supported all platforms. However the people who wrote sort regularly do support 'many' platforms -- far more than what openSuSE supports. Do you regularly disable feature from upstream requiring someone else to provide extra proof that they work? Did you have some reason to suspect that their fixes didn't work? Did you submit a bug report upstream on the issue? I could easily have missed it, but don't recall seeing one. If you don't submit bug reports they won't get fixed. Too often, I see see patches going back 7-10 versions for bugs openSuSE has fixed in various progs/utils that should have been passed back upstream -- but it doesn't *appear* that they have been -- if they had been, you wouldn't need so many custom patches at build time.
If you're willing to help and got a nice sample work load to stress test sort threading I'd try to turn that into a test for the coreutils-testsuite package that I could then build and thus run on all the supported platforms.
They worked through multiple iterations of this algorithm to find a balance that worked and you just throw away their work without question? Do you have reason to believe they have buggy code by default? I'll Cc' the coreutils bug-list on this and open a bug-report on this as should have been done originally, and maybe your questions can be addressed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org