On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 14:13 +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Removing those obsolete source package of gnuradio would break m68k, > hppa, ia64 and sparc gnuradio-wise.
Yes. I'm sorry I didn't mention this in the bug report, as it is indeed something already thought about. > Did you contact the porters of the relevant release-architectures about > this? Several of us involved in porting to these various architectures have discussed this online at various times, and in person at the recent Ubuntu gathering in California. Nobody is happy about the new gnuradio working on less architectures than the old, but everyone I've talked to agrees that removing the obsolete packages makes sense. The primary reason for this is that GNU Radio is a development environment which has no other package dependencies in Debian (yet). I don't believe anyone working on software defined radio projects wants to continue developing against the pre-3 versions of the gnuradio packages. So there is no real loss to Debian of removing these obsolete packages, it's independent of work to get the current code building across all architectures. In some cases, the problems building current gnuradio on the remaining Debian architectures may represent problems in other packages. For example, the last build log I see for ia64 indicates a bug in sdcc, and the powerpc build is failing because the SWIG-generated large C++ source file for the user interface routines is causing an ICE. Both of these may be possible to work around in the gnuradio source, but it might be better in the long term to fix the problems in those tools. The hppa and sparc builds run to completion, but fail similarly in the regression test suite. > I'll remove these packages ... Thank you! Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
