Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> José Luis Tallón <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> lcdproc 0.5.2-1 states "Architecture: i386 amd64" in its control file.
>>
> Yes, that's a bug.
>
>> I don't understand why this package is marked as FTBFS on powerpc, when
>> autobuilding for that arch is not supposed to be attempted.
>> Could you please educate me on this? I would like to resolve this
>> definitively, but I don't have the means to test in on other arches.
>>
>
> Restricting a package to some architectures because you are neither
> able nor willing to fix the problem on other archs is not a fix for this
> bug. It's a workaround, nothing more.
Indeed it is a workaround.
However, I think having 0.5.2-1 in the archive (even though restricted
to two arches) is better than having 0.5.1 which does FTBFS.
The alternative would be (although we are probably too close to release
to try it) to try and build it for all arches and await confirmation
from users that it does work (or does not).
> And while you are setting an
> Architecture header restricted to the architectures *you* consider
> important, both users and the release team might have a different
> opionion.
>
No, not at all. It is not that i386 and amd64 are important for me (they
are not more than, say, alpha or mipsel).
It happens that I only have confirmation of lcdproc working properly on
these right now (for the current version).
> Also, setting the architecture header is not enough, someone would also
> need to remove the old binaries from unstable.
>
Yes. I just agreed to this a couple hours ago at #400066.
However, I am open to any other solution.
If you would sponsor it, we can certainly upload an "architecture: any"
version of lcdproc --- please remember that I have no access to any
porting machine and am thus unable to test compilation on other arches.
It just took me some three weeks to have some packages uploaded, since
Amaya was too busy, and my other sponsors are basically MIA.
I can prepare the updated package and have it ready in some hours, if
you agree.
While at it, I would check the source to ensure there are no obvious
reasons to have it FTBFS on other arches.
Regards,
J.L.
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