On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 10:26:37PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > elfutils currently FTBFS for riscv64 and this is the last remaining > blocker to get a working debian-installer for riscv64. As already > discussed together with elfutils upstream, there is a workaround that > requires only a one-line change in a riscv-specific file plus > extending the existing architecture-specific build-dependency on > libc6-dbg for [powerpc powerpcspe ppc64 ppc64el armel armhf arm64 > sparc64] to also include riscv64. > > I would therefore like to ask you to upload a version of elfutils > with the attached patch to unstable. The patch should pose no > problem with the freeze as it only touches an arch-specific source > file for a non-release architecture and doesn't have any effect at > all on any release architecture. At the same time it is very > important for the riscv64 port as without the patch we cannot make > progress with d-i on riscv64, and having a working d-i is a > significant milestone for the riscv64 port.
Hello Kurt, may I kindly ping you on this bugreport? Is there anything that speaks against application of the patch? If you think that the patch is ok but you don't have time for preparing a new upload, I would offer doing an NMU if that would be ok for you. Regards, Karsten -- Ich widerspreche hiermit ausdrücklich der Nutzung sowie der Weitergabe meiner personenbezogenen Daten für Zwecke der Werbung sowie der Markt- oder Meinungsforschung.
