Re: Bug#921146: Program mksquashfs from squashfs-tools 1:4.3-11 does not make use all CPU cores

From: Phillip Lougher
Date: Fri Aug 02 2019 - 00:17:35 EST


On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 11:41 PM LÃszlà BÃszÃrmÃnyi (GCS) <gcs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Let me add Chris Lamb then the previous Debian Project Leader (also
> British just like you [as I know] and you may sit down and talk about
> this in person) who asked for the reproducibility patch / build in the
> first place.
>

If Chris Lamb or anyone else wants a face-to-face meeting I'm more
than happy to do so.

I coincidentally have a week's holiday (vacation) next week, and I'm
happy to spend a day of it travelling and meeting to discuss the
situation.

I do want to de-escalate this situation if possible.

Phillip

> > What else do I have to do to make you stop bad-mouthing Squashfs? Sue?
> If you feel yourself better with that, be my guest. I don't know who
> is the lawyer of Debian, but I'm sure s/he can show you that it's only
> you who dance this storm.
>
> Regards,
> Laszlo/GCS
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919207#5
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919207#83
> [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919207#88
> [4] https://sourceforge.net/p/squashfs/code/ci/e38956b92f738518c29734399629e7cdb33072d3/log/?path=
> [5] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=921146#75
> [6] https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng
> [7] https://lwn.net/Articles/651775/
> [8] https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/commit/f95864afe8833fe3ad782d714b41378e860977b1
> [9] https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/commit/ba215d73e153a6f237088b4ecb88c702bb4d4183