* Sébastien Noel <sebast...@twolife.be> [250108 15:31]: > Le 2025-01-08 14:58, Chris Hofstaedtler a écrit : > > I strongly disagree. There is no institutional "old farts club > > only". > > I'm sure it's not an institutional moto; but it's how it feels externally > :-/
Yeah, makes sense. > My experience is that if you don't have strong ties with people "on the > inside" (or write 'provocative' email like I just did) you will mostly be > ignored, plain and simple. The "normal" processes leads to dead ends > unfortunately. Indeed. To me it seems like this is how all contribution-driven projects work though: if you're not in a position to do something yourself, the only thing left to do is either make yourself heard loudly, repeatedly, in public, or discreetly find someone who can help you directly. > > Anyway: > > > > I was gonna upload your package to NEW, > > Ho wow, thanks :-) > > > but it doesn't build here, and that's a prerequisite for NEW: > > That's a shame. > To upload to mentors.d.o, it has to build, so yesterday it was ok. > > I just tried (sbuild with the 'unshare' backend): > > $ dget > https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/s/serious-engine/serious-engine_0~git20230724+dfsg-1.dsc > [...] > $ sbuild -d unstable -A -s --force-orig-source *.dsc > [...] > Finished at 2025-01-08T14:05:27Z > Build needed 00:03:09, 545212k disk space > > > [...] > > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > that's new to me. > I never tried to build it on aarch64, only amd64 :-/ This might very well be a compiler bug on aarch64, who knows. > So, I suppose i have to search for an old rpi3 somewhere at home and get > back to work... Can't promise to find an amd64 box that I trust enough to build something for NEW anytime soon. If you can get it to build on aarch64 that would be awesome. Chris
