Hi, just following up on this old bug. Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefl...@bjoernhoefling.de> writes:
> I saw that enki fails due to Qt 5.11. Enki is now building fine. > Note that aseba doesn't have a good build history anyway: > > https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/aseba-1.6.0-0.3b35de8.x86_64-linux/all > https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/aseba-1.6.0-0.3b35de8.i686-linux/all > https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/aseba-1.6.0-0.3b35de8.armhf-linux > > Anyone using it? > > General note: > > As far as I know, this package is here for the Thymio robot, not for > the asaba Framework as such. > > In spring 2018, Mobsya (the organisation behind Thymio) decided to go > their own way, because they don't have the capacity to maintain the > whole aseba framework as such. Maintainer wanted for the old aseba > project. See this announcement for more details: > > https://github.com/aseba-community/aseba#thymio-and-mobsya-fork > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ijY2dZR2TbSySMqFfbCgG_ifZPGoxrAQaVuZVQZHKlY/edit# > > So, in the long term, we should base the package definition on their > repository: > > https://github.com/Mobsya/aseba > > They don't have a released version yet. And they pull in a lot more > dependencies via git. It looks like they have a released version now (2.2.0, in fact). There is also the Debian-maintained fork of the original: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/aseba Since aseba continues to fail building, we should either remove it, or switch to one of those two. -- Sarah
