Bug#921573: lintian: binary-from-other-architecture only works sometimes

2019-02-18 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Chris, On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 02:11:59PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Indeed. My now-obvious mistake was that I was following: > > https://wiki.debian.org/CrossCompiling#Building_your_own_cross-toolchain I've updated that section to say that you don't need that. Thank you. > .. instead of

Bug#921573: lintian: binary-from-other-architecture only works sometimes

2019-02-18 Thread Chris Lamb
Dear Helmut, Thank you for your patience with me whilst I try and get Lintian working correctly for you. For a bit of background I had never cross-built a package until today and I'm afraid to say I could not help but read something somewhat antagonistic in your replies at my errors and lack of

Bug#921573: lintian: binary-from-other-architecture only works sometimes

2019-02-17 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Matthia and Chris, On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 11:18:00PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > > For the advantage of everybody, here are links to the cross-builds from > > amd64 to mips64el and arm64 of procmail. Thank you. > Wow, thanks for this! I had spent an hour trying to follow the > instructions

Bug#921573: lintian: binary-from-other-architecture only works sometimes

2019-02-17 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Mattia, > For the advantage of everybody, here are links to the cross-builds from > amd64 to mips64el and arm64 of procmail. Wow, thanks for this! I had spent an hour trying to follow the instructions on the Debian Wiki to get a crossbuild environment which failed in a very strage way, so had

Bug#921573: lintian: binary-from-other-architecture only works sometimes

2019-02-17 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 04:52:26PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > You don't still have it, so no worries. I don't get what the big > deal is. :) For the advantage of everybody, here are links to the cross-builds from amd64 to mips64el and arm64 of procmail. just dget this url (which is more

Bug#921573: lintian: binary-from-other-architecture only works sometimes

2019-02-07 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Helmut, > If you use neither pbuilder nor sbuild, how do you build packages? Is > there another significant build environment that does not support cross > building yet? I was only trying to say that getting up-to-speed and building the cross-built .deb myself was always going to take longer

Bug#921573: lintian: binary-from-other-architecture only works sometimes

2019-02-07 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: tags -1 - moreinfo Hi Chris, On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 09:04:39AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > (Not really. I do not have/use an sbuild or a crossbuild setup...) If you use neither pbuilder nor sbuild, how do you build packages? Is there another significant build environment that does not

Bug#921573: lintian: binary-from-other-architecture only works sometimes

2019-02-07 Thread Chris Lamb
tags 921573 - moreinfo thanks Helmut Grohne wrote: > sbuild reports a Package-Time of 20 here. The time you took writing the > mail already took longer than just building it (Not really. I do not have/use an sbuild or a crossbuild setup...) Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris

Bug#921573: lintian: binary-from-other-architecture only works sometimes

2019-02-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Chris, On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 10:01:44PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Replying quickly; do you happen to have the .deb still handy? If > so, would be great to attach to this bug report as it will save > folks the cross-build step. :) I actaully don't. Recording such artifacts is beyond the

Bug#921573: lintian: binary-from-other-architecture only works sometimes

2019-02-06 Thread Chris Lamb
Helmut Grohne wrote: > Please cross build the procmail package for arm64 and for mips64el on an > amd64 build machine. In both cases, you'll get a successful build, but > the binaries inside the package are amd64 binaries despite the > arm64/mips64el architecture tag. Replying quickly; do you

Bug#921573: lintian: binary-from-other-architecture only works sometimes

2019-02-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.124 Please cross build the procmail package for arm64 and for mips64el on an amd64 build machine. In both cases, you'll get a successful build, but the binaries inside the package are amd64 binaries despite the arm64/mips64el architecture tag. As such, lintian should