Hi Wookey, Just a quick response - I haven't yet had any time to dig into this in any detail, but also didn't want your email to go un-answered.
First of all, thank you for working on this! I don't have any direct involvement with openvrml aside from trying to keep it in (and others like it) in the archive when it seems like there is a userbase. I can file a transition bug if we want to go that route. The primary benenfit I see there is that the buildds will automatically do binNMUs of the r-deps, so for a package with a small set of r-deps, maybe it's not worth it. I will take a look at that. As far as performing an upload, I should be able to do it without requiring an NMU. I'll take a look at that too, but it make take a week or so. Cheers, tony On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 08:09:37PM +0000, Wookey wrote: > OK. I just tested the fixes in openvrml for building on new arches (arm64, > ppc64le, ppc64) > And I included the java fixes so that it would build. > But now neither of us can upload our NMU due to this g++-5 ABI issue. > > The maintainer seems to be MIA (Sam - are you out there?) so I'd very > much like to just upload something if we can. > > If we were really keen we'd do a library transition just to be on the > safe side. Does anyone know what's involved with that? > > openvrml is kind of old and unloved these days, but I would expect > some software to be using it as it's a file format still supported by > some things. libg3d, meshlab and openscenegraph claim vrml support for > example? Did they drop it, do we not build the osg-vrml plugin, > perhaps they have internal code for reading? These are questions the > maintainer should be able to help answer. > > I've tried a build but it failed after the src build, because debian > patches back in Makefile.am a 'lookat' target into, the source file > for which was removed in 2006! after dh_autoreconfing this gets back > into the build and it barfs. > > GUess I'd better fix that and try again... > > Wookey > -- > Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM > http://wookware.org/
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