Andreas Barth wrote: > As an current exmaple, take the libcdio-transition. This transition > needs to have updated packages xmms2, xmp and vlc. However, the > packages are out-of-date on hppa, and for this reason cannot enter > testing (and they depend on an old library that will go away with the > transition).
I'm not an hppa porter and also have not looked at the current general state of hppa build failures, but are you sure this is a good example? 1) vlc is also not yet built on mips/mipsel, so hppa is not *the* blocking arch. 2) The current build was tried 3 times and failed three times with different errors; it also needed 3 tries on powerpc and required binNMUs on 2 arches. So, there *has* been action by the porters (retries) and clearly there are also problems with the package itself or its dependencies. Is it realistic to require porters to spend a lot of time or give priority to such an apparently fragile package? Isn't there some obligation on the maintainer of the package too? 3) Looking at the error, it seems to me that this is hardly an architecture-specific issue: /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 `top_srcdir="../.." top_builddir="../.." ../../vlc-config --cflags plugin libflac_plugin.la` -g -O2 -Wall -Wextra -Wsign-compare -Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Wvolatile-register-var -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -pipe -rpath '/usr/lib/vlc/codec' -avoid-version -module -export-symbol-regex ^vlc_entry -shrext .so -no-undefined `top_srcdir="../.." top_builddir="../.." ../../vlc-config --ldflags plugin libflac_plugin.la` -Wl,--as-needed -o libflac_plugin.la -rpath /usr/lib/vlc/codec libflac_plugin_la-flac.lo `top_srcdir="../.." top_builddir="../.." ../../vlc-config -libs plugin libflac_plugin.la` ../../src/libvlccore.la ../../compat/libcompat.la libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -shared .libs/libflac_plugin_la-flac.o -Wl,--whole-archive ../../compat/.libs/libcompat.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/build/buildd-vlc_1.0.1-1-hppa-1oK93U/vlc-1.0.1/src/.libs -Wl,--as-needed -lpthread /usr/lib/libFLAC.so -logg ../../src/.libs/libvlccore.so -Wl,-soname -Wl,libflac_plugin.so -o .libs/libflac_plugin.so /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libogg.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libogg.la' is not a valid libtool archive Or are you simply asking the hppa porters to be more active in filing FTBFS bugs against packages after build failures? Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
