Roland Stigge wrote:
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Hi you two,
On 05/05/13 04:48, Debian FTP Masters wrote:
Accepted:
Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 01:54:02 +0000 Source: m-tx
Binary: m-tx Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.60d-5.1
Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Roland Stigge
<sti...@antcom.de> Changed-By: Peter Michael Green
<plugw...@debian.org> Description: m-tx - Simple
music-from-text language for use with PMX/MusiXTeX Changes: m-tx
(0.60d-5.1) unstable; urgency=low . * Non-maintainer upload. * Set
architecture list to any so the package builds on all
architectures where the build-depends are available.
Regarding this issue, the following was done in m-tx 0.60c-1:
- Switched from p2c+gcc to fp-compiler due to upstream
incompatibility,
unfortunately reduces architectures to i386 powerpc sparc amd64
arm
and doesn't support shared library linking
Since that changelog entry was written freepascal has become available
on two more architectures in unstable with a third architecture (though
that third architecture is a debian-ports.org architecture rather than
an official architecture) now supported by the experimental freepascal
packages (should be hitting unstable soon) and another two architectures
coming up upstream which are likely to be added before the jessie release.
Having a manually set architecture list on a package that is not
architecture specific in itself but depends on a complier that is
architecture specific has no real advantage and two significant
disadvantages over leaving the architecture set to any.
1: it has to be updated manually when the compiler is ported to more
architectures. This clearly was not done leaving the package
unessacerally unavailable on those architectures.
2: it means it is far less obvious to porters why the package is not
available on thier architecture.
For an NMU, I would expect the following:
* Filing a bug describing the problem first.
I filed a bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=706144 .
The bug received no feedback from either you or norbert.
* Contacting the maintainers of the package - the current state may
have a reason.
I expressed my intent to NMU to the bug report about 10 days before I
uploaded (the NMU guidelines say 5 days for fixing an important bug but
I held it longer because of the wheezy release). My understanding is
that mails sent to bug reports are forwarded to the maintainer.
* Closing the respective bug in the NMU changelog
* Attaching the NMU diff to the BTS
I apologise for forgetting these steps. I can't retroactively add a
closes to the changelog entry but I have generated a debdiff and
attached it to this email (which I am also sending to the bugreport).
Since you did nothing from this list, I guess sth. went wrong here.
Maybe I missed something since Norbert took over maintainership for
m-tx (including some musixtex related packages). So did you coordinate
(Peter and Norbert)? Otherwise I would be forced to revert the changes
of m-tx 0.60d-5.1 and ask you to not do like this again. (Actually,
the version from experimental should just be moved to unstable now
that wheezy is released. - Norbert?)
Thanks in advance,
Apologies for my oversights in the process but I don't belive a revert
is a sensible course of action.
Peter Michael Green
Freepascal comaintainer
Arm porter
diff -Nru m-tx-0.60d/debian/changelog m-tx-0.60d/debian/changelog
--- m-tx-0.60d/debian/changelog 2012-04-01 09:59:22.000000000 +0100
+++ m-tx-0.60d/debian/changelog 2013-05-05 03:01:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+m-tx (0.60d-5.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Set architecture list to any so the package builds on all architectures
+ where the build-depends are available.
+
+ -- Peter Michael Green <plugw...@debian.org> Sun, 05 May 2013 01:54:02 +0000
+
m-tx (0.60d-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix postinst script to adjust to new texmf path (Closes: #666678)
diff -Nru m-tx-0.60d/debian/control m-tx-0.60d/debian/control
--- m-tx-0.60d/debian/control 2012-03-30 14:48:41.000000000 +0100
+++ m-tx-0.60d/debian/control 2013-05-05 02:53:33.000000000 +0100
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), musixtex, pmx, musixtex (>= 1:0.114-2) |
musixlyr, texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-fonts-recommended, fp-compiler,
texlive-latex-extra
Package: m-tx
-Architecture: i386 powerpc sparc amd64 arm
+Architecture: any
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, texlive-base
Recommends: musixtex (>= 1:0.98-1), musixlyr (>= 1.10-4), pmx (>= 2.1.0-1)
Description: Simple music-from-text language for use with PMX/MusiXTeX
