Steve Langasek wrote:
> reopen 400066
> thanks
>
>
>> - restrict building to just i386, amd64 (Closes: #400066)
>>
>
> This is not an acceptable solution at all. There is nothing x86-specific
> about this package, and even up to *0.5.1-1*, the package was building
> successfully on alpha until you changed the architecture list.
>
This is indeed a transient solution, suggested by upstream himself.
> Upstream version 0.4.5 of lcdproc was portable to all architectures. That
> 0.5.1 is not is a regression, and it's not ok to "close" the issue by
> declaring that only i386 and amd64 will be supported. It is the release
> policy that packages must be supported on all architectures where it is
> "reasonable to do so", and it is most definitely reasonable to support
> architectures where the package was building fine before.
>
But it is my fault that the newer 0.5.2 hasn't been packaged yet.
Which I will do as soon as possible (I have to sort out a couple other
packages before)
> The only architecture that should be dropped from the supported list for
> this package is s390, because s390 does not support serial, parallel, and
> USB devices; but all other archs must be supported
I concur... even though I don't know how the different parallel devices
should be supported across architectures. While the serial devices have
always had good, uniform, support, I don't know how parallel ports are
handled outside of the PC architecture.
Even though it sounds a bit hack-ish, I think I might try a different
set of configuration flags depending on the architecture (enable
parallel drivers for i386/amd64, disable them for the remaining arches).
Am I making some wrong assumption here, Jonathan?
Thank you for your semi-constant attention and help, Steve. It is much
appreciated.
J.L.
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