On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Stating that the package "FTBFSes on non-release architectures" is > twisting the situation a little bit.
It’s still a fact… and other packages have fixed this by requiring pandoc only in BD-Indep. > The only reason this FTBFSes is that one of its build-dependencies, > pandoc, is not available, in turn due to what looks like missing build > dependencies(?). pandoc is written in some language whose compiler needs to be explicitly ported to each new architecture, and is therefore a hard blocker for *all* new ports. > I consider this an ask to rework/simplify upstreams' documentation build > system. That seems like a very sensible ask (especially given the > limited size of those two documents), but is really a wish rather than a > bug the way I see it. Does that makes sense? Meh, it makes sense, but FTBFS, no matter the reason, is serious for release architectures and important for non-release ones, but let’s not play ping-pong considering we both have an agreed way forward. > Not more so than interacting with them on GitHub issues or PRs myself. > They're fairly responsive there, though! I'd rather if you filed an OK, that’s good. Will do. bye, //mirabilos -- tarent solutions GmbH Rochusstraße 2-4, D-53123 Bonn • http://www.tarent.de/ Tel: +49 228 54881-393 • Fax: +49 228 54881-235 HRB 5168 (AG Bonn) • USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Stefan Barth, Kai Ebenrett, Boris Esser, Alexander Steeg
