Hello Philipp, *, On Friday 06 August 2010 19:17:59 Philipp Kern wrote: > > Anyhow, the thing is that probably nobody ever ran Aqsis on HPPA, the > > more professional users of Aqsis would surely use top-notch hardware > > and they won't bother with versions 4 years old. More informal users > > would probably use more common desktop machines at home, not HPPA. So > > from my point of view, it doesn't make any sense to ship this software > > with a version about ~4 years old just because it doesn't build on > > HPPA machines. > > please file a partial binary removal request against ftp.debian.org to > remove the hppa binary and do no further uploads until the package > migrated to testing. That should solve the issue of the package not > going in.
OK, that sounds like a good plan to me. I'll wait a few days to see if David or anybody has anything else about this, otherwise I'll apply this solution. > > I tried to use the conditional dependency [linux-any] for this package > > (K3D *can* work without this library, only that it has the related > > features disabled); but pbuilder doesn't support it and I was told > > that the daemons on buildd farm don't support it either, although > > there were people trying to fix it. Maybe there's a way to get this > > working now. > > I think that conditional build-dependencies should work. It's indeed > true that edos-debcheck on the wanna-build side might not, but if this > is the case please file a bug against buildd.debian.org after it has > been uploaded. The package can be given to the builders overriding this > check, too. > > Again, maybe the solution of aqsis might help here too. OK, same as above. Thanks for the help :) Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201008061948.09431.manuel.montez...@gmail.com
