On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:09:38PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > See for example libevent which is a well-maintained software. It won't > compile with automake 1.13 and later (because automake thinks that using > $(top_srcdir) in TESTS is broken while it worked perfectly). This will > be fixed when libevent 2.0.22 will be released. In the meantime, nobody > complained about this problem. Should we take time to fix a problem that > nobody sees?
You say "nobody", but in fact we did have to patch libevent in Ubuntu to make it build on ppc64el; yet another point where what could have been a largely automated process had to stop and wait for human intervention. Matthias should forward the patch for that (*poke*), but it's: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/158354967/libevent_2.0.21-stable-1_2.0.21-stable-1ubuntu1.diff.gz Having to wait for new upstream releases when you're trying to get a port done sucks. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131226222751.gb19...@riva.ucam.org
