Comment 59 for bug 664431

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Oliver Grawert (ogra) wrote : Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

Am Dienstag, den 30.11.2010, 14:24 +0000 schrieb Scott Kitterman:
> I understand it's a regression for some hardware from Lucid. This SRU is a
> regression for a different set of hardware. That's mitigated by the PPA
> packages that are being provided, but I think it's a reasonably novel
> interpretation of our SRU policy to tell users that had reasonably working
> hardware at release that they now need to use a PPA to avoid a regression.
>
the problem is that this package broke policy (no static NEON builds in
the archive) from the beginning and the policy breakage went unnoticed,
it should have never entered the archive in this state.

either proper runtime detection has to be in place or one of the
solutions from comment #50 need to be implemented on an archive level.