Hi Dirk and Aaron, quick followup.
Le Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 03:02:44PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > after reading the whole discussion, and looking at the history of the xvfb > package, I opened <https://bugs.debian.org/830661>, where I ask to change the > Recommends relationship on xauth to a Depends. That would prevent further > build failures. The xvfb maintainers refused to Depend on xauth. > The failure happened on the hppa architecture, which is not a release > architecture. In addition, other hppa buildds are clean, and whithin a day, > r-cran-rngtools was built successfully on "physik". This also means that one > can ask the hppa porters to clean the "bell" buildd (where the failure > happened), since the presence of xvfb there does not seem to be necessary. The hppa porters promptly removed xvfb from their buildd. > If none of this works and failures pop up on release architectures, then > I think that adding an ad-hoc test in r-cran.mk would be safe, although it > is not the most satisfying solution. As of now, we are sure that build will fail again of one installs xvfb without xauth, but we also know that this happens very rarely. Obviously, it is up to Dirk to add a test for xauth or just close the bug. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
