Dear Debian Python, I just discovered (the hard way) that the recent change in Python[1] to display sys.platform on mips, mipsel, alpha, sparc, powerpc and hppa as linux2-mips, linux2-mips, linux2-alpha, linux2-sparc, linux2-powerpc and linux2-hppa respectively may cause several packages in sid and Lenny to FTBFS. For example, see:
http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status/package.php?p=matplotlib&suite=testing While I can fix matplotlib my just editing the build_fix.patch file to add these entries, I wanted an approval that this is what I have to do. Note that this may affect other packages in both sid and Lenny, though I am not sure how many packages are sensitive to sys.platform during their build. Thanks. Kumar [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500383 [2]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=499132 -- Kumar Appaiah
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