On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:58:18PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:01:04AM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > Package: ftp.debian.org
> >
> > Could you please remove the 1.8.1-9 build of geomview for the
> > following architectures: ia64, hppa, s390.
>
> Why? The only reason I can find is #314988, and I can only paraphrase
> Steve Langasek's words:
>
> | Next time if you want to sneak a change like this past the porters,
> | don't forget [you need to] to ask the ftpmasters to remove the stale
> | binary packages. ;)
Exactly. That's what this request is about: please remove the stale
binaries.
> You do say:
> > These architectures are no longer on the list to build for geomview.
>
> but you don't list why,
Sorry. I didn't realise that was required. It's simply that geomview
doesn't appear to run on amd64. I suspected it's broken on 64-bit
architectures, though Steve L. suggests otherwise:
Sorry, this is *not* (just) a 64-bit bug; geomview runs fine for
me on my alpha. Since the etch RC policy says that packages must
be supported on as many architectures as is reasonably possible,
this is therefore an RC bug; please re-add alpha to the
architecture list. ia64 can reasonably be left out until someone
can confirm that this bug doesn't exist there, but given that both
people who have reported this bug say they're using nvidia on
amd64, I suspect it may be a 64-bit issue in geomview that only
manifests when using the nvidia binary drivers -- in which case
the package really ought to be supported on amd64 as well.
So I put back alpha and closed the bug.
> Did you contact the porters lists about this issue? What was their
> response?
Yes. I had several folks with amd64 reproduce the bug. No-one has
any ideas what the bug is. It's all in the log of BTS 314988.
-Steve
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