Bug#737946: Patch for bootstrapping ncurses without multilib

2014-10-11 Thread Sven Joachim
Control: block -1 by 764216 Am 07.10.2014 um 08:53 schrieb Johannes Schauer: Control: block -1 by 763766 744246 Hi, On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 20:37:19 +0200 Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de wrote: I worked out a patch that uses the build profile specification. With the software in sid (dpkg,

Bug#737946: Patch for bootstrapping ncurses without multilib

2014-10-11 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Sven Joachim (2014-10-11 18:46:20) Thanks. I suppose the debhelper build dependency needs to be bumped to (= 9.20141010) then? correct. Your patch appears to work, but at the end of the build dpkg-genchanges bailed out due to an undefined subroutine which seems to be what

Bug#737946: Patch for bootstrapping ncurses without multilib

2014-10-07 Thread Johannes Schauer
Control: block -1 by 763766 744246 Hi, On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 20:37:19 +0200 Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de wrote: I worked out a patch that uses the build profile specification. With the software in sid (dpkg, apt, ...) this actually works. I renamed the profile from stage1 to nobiarch,

Bug#737946: Patch for bootstrapping ncurses without multilib

2014-04-26 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 08:42:11PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: Yes, use !profile.stage1 in anything you don't need for a stage1 build. See https://blog.mister-muffin.de/2014/02/06/botch-updates/ and deb-src-control(5). I worked out a patch that uses the build profile specification. With the

Bug#737946: Patch for bootstrapping ncurses without multilib

2014-02-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-07 05:32 +0100, Daniel Schepler wrote: As the subject says: the attached patch allows for bootstrapping ncurses, at an early stage of the process when multilib compilers and libraries are not yet available. diff -urN ncurses-5.9+20130608.old/debian/rules

Bug#737946: Patch for bootstrapping ncurses without multilib

2014-02-07 Thread Daniel Schepler
Huh, I wasn't aware that this had finally made its way into dpkg. So yes, that does make sense. Is there any way to specify the corresponding changes in Build-Depends yet? Although, depending on how it works, even if it's in dpkg we might not be able to actually use it in real uploads until

Bug#737946: Patch for bootstrapping ncurses without multilib

2014-02-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-07 19:17 +0100, Daniel Schepler wrote: Huh, I wasn't aware that this had finally made its way into dpkg. So yes, that does make sense. Is there any way to specify the corresponding changes in Build-Depends yet? Yes, use !profile.stage1 in anything you don't need for a stage1

Bug#737946: Patch for bootstrapping ncurses without multilib

2014-02-07 Thread Daniel Schepler
OK, so that hasn't changed that much since the last proposal I saw. I don't currently see any way to specify that certain packages are not built in certain profiles, though, which would make cases like this easier (e.g. declare Built-In-Profiles: !profile:stage1 on the multilib packages instead

Bug#737946: Patch for bootstrapping ncurses without multilib

2014-02-06 Thread Daniel Schepler
Source: ncurses Version: 5.9+20140118-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch As the subject says: the attached patch allows for bootstrapping ncurses, at an early stage of the process when multilib compilers and libraries are not yet available. -- Daniel Schepler diff -urN