bug#12427: Why does OpenSuSE disabled the default of allowing multi-core use in Coreutils 'sort'??

[Linda Walsh]

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.
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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.
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        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.