On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 22:45 +0100, peter green wrote: > Abou Al Montacir wrote: > > > > Hi Peter, > > > > I've committed fixes of this bug, can you please upload? > Just thought i'd keep you informed. > > I uploaded with my changes and your changes. I also had to make a couple thanks, > of follow uploads to deal with a couple of small but build-breaking > issues, i'll try and get those follow up uploads into svn soon. I'd prefer to have patches committed to svn, prior to upload, then build from svn (using svn-buildpackage for example). I usually build each commit separately before committing it, then once I want to upload to mentors, build from a clean checkout. But I understand that some times one wants to go fast, however this could lead to missing tags. > Unfortunately I wasn't quick enough with the uploads and the chroots on > the sparc buildd were updated to the new binutils (which makes versions > of the fpc package prior to 2.6.2-3 uninstallable) before I managed to That's really no chance. > get the new upload in. This will mean a manual build on sparc is needed. > Unfortunately the sparc porterbox seems to be out of disc space at the > moment and requests in #debian-sparc for someone to build it manually > went unanswered. I'm currently looking into qemu and if that fails I > will look into if a sparc box I had remote access to ages ago can be > made available again. I want to get this into testing ASAP to minimise > the chance of problems for any derivatives that pull from testing. I have a sparc station at home. I did not boot it for ages and I need to update it, but if really required I could do it. > powerpc64 will also need manual building for the same reason. Since it > is not an official architecture I don't plan to do that building, ccing > the guy who filed the most recent ppc64 bug report to inform him of this. fine
Cheers,
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