On 2018-12-28 7:24 a.m., Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Could I perhaps convince you to do an upload with this patch in > time for buster? It will enable us to remove one hack/work around > in the "bootstrap.sh" script currently in use for bootstrapping > new architectures (as well as improve our cross-building stats for > buster). Also, you mention that you have applied it in git but I > cannot see it in salsa (admittedly, I only checked the master > branch). Have you perhaps forgotten to push it? > > If you would like some additional changes/improvements to popt > (albeit unrelated to this bug), then I can think of: > > * The override for dh_auto_build might be redundant now that > debhelper passes --disable-silent-rules (as of > debhelper/9.20140613) > > * The popt looks like a package that might be able to build with > "Rules-Requires-Root: no" set in the Source in d/control. - If that > fails in sid because the upstream build system relies on root, > please set "Rules-Requires-Root: binary-targets" explicitly. This > will enable us to flip the default and make "(fake)root" opt-in > rather than opt-out in the future. > > Thanks, ~Niels
Sorry for the lack of reply, I've just uploaded a package with the fix included as well as addressing your other comments. Michael
