Hi Dirk,
Yes, if you want to release -6 into unstable with these makefile changes, I am OK with that. Cheers, Koen. On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > 6) I agree completely with Stephen's conclusions that there may be > > more endianness bugs lurking, so in the short term, I recommend to > > Dirk that any afio release on debian that pretends to be stable > > should omit the -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE options > > in the powerpc builds so as to avoid any endianness bugs. > > Very good suggestion. We actually do not pretend to be stable right now > as we just released, but I will back that out. > > I'll just carry the make(1) code I use in debian/rules into your upstream > Makefile to have an if/else branch on the build arch and will omit these > two switches in -6. > > With that change, I will release -6 into Debian "unstable". I added code to > debian/rules to write, and verify, a simple afio archive from the afio > sources. > All 11 build arches will run this, that should give us a pointer as to whether > these compile-time options cause trouble on any other architecture. > > > 8) HOWEVER some parts of this patch I do not want to fold into the > > main afio tree, in particular I do not want to have any assumption > > Just do double-check -- you're ok with releasing it into Debian unstable? > > Bye, Dirk > >
