On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 08:15:41AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + wontfix
>
> Hello Helmut,
>
> On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 05:51 +0000, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> > I suggest removing aboot from Debian for the following reasons:
> > * It accumulated one RC-bug:
> > + #805988: aboot: FTBFS on amd64 when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A
> > Last modified: 1 year, 3 months
> >
> > * It is not part of bookworm or trixie and is not a key package.
>
> It's a key package for booting Debian on alpha, so we absolutely need it.
>
> Fixing this bug requires a little more work and effort and it's on my TODO
> list. But since I am mostly doing this as a one-man show at the moment, it
> takes a little longer.
Well doing this makes it compile on amd64 for me.
diff -ru aboot-1.0~pre20200212/debian/compat
aboot-1.0~pre20200212.patched/debian/compat
--- aboot-1.0~pre20200212/debian/compat 2020-03-07 05:33:09.000000000 -0500
+++ aboot-1.0~pre20200212.patched/debian/compat 2024-09-23 11:51:00.072830809
-0400
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9
+10
diff -ru aboot-1.0~pre20200212/debian/rules
aboot-1.0~pre20200212.patched/debian/rules
--- aboot-1.0~pre20200212/debian/rules 2020-03-07 06:10:21.000000000 -0500
+++ aboot-1.0~pre20200212.patched/debian/rules 2024-09-23 11:52:03.572991961
-0400
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
$(MAKE) -C srmbootfat srmbootfat srmbootfat.1 CC=$(CC) $(shell
dpkg-buildflags --export=configure)
$(MAKE) -C doc/man
$(MAKE) -C doc/man/de
+ $(MAKE) -C doc/faq
rename 's/([a-z]*).([1,5,8])/\1.de.\2/' doc/man/de/*.[1,5,8]
endif
Not entirely sure it is exactly correct but it does build and does appear
to put a reasonable set of files into the packages generated.
--
Len Sorensen
