Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: serious
Justification: no longer builds from source
Hi,
The mcvs package used to build on ia64, mipsel, s390, and sparc in the past
because clisp at that time still contained the FFI module. This is no longer
the case, however, and as a result mcvs fails to build from source on those
four architectures.
After talking to the clisp maintainer it became obvious that while there is
a certain interest in trying to get those 4 architectures up to sync with
the others again, feature-wise, there is no definite date for that nor is
there much of a priority to do so.
In the mean time, this prevents newer mcvs versions from progressing to
testing because the old architectures still have package files. In light of
the fact that those are lesser-used architectures (based on popcon) and
that I am unable to get any changes to mcvs in to debian/testing, I would
like to request the removal from the package pool of:
mcvs_1.0.13-8_ia64.deb
mcvs_1.0.13-8_mipsel.deb
mcvs_1.0.13-8_s390.deb
mcvs_1.0.13-8_sparc.deb
For one thing, this will allow the amd64 package from getting into testing.
Thank you very much,
- robin
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