On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:58:21AM +0200, José Luis Tallón wrote: > > 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) Ok, no problem, I'm just making it clear that this bug is not fixed. > > 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. They're handled identically on some architectures, and not at all on some other architectures. (Alpha has parallel, which is why the package built ok on alpha; some other architectures don't support parallel.) > 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? Well, the assumption that parallel should only be enabled on i386/amd64 is wrong. It should definitely be enabled on alpha, and I believe on ia64. Looking at the build logs for 0.5.1-1, it's probably ok to disable it on all the other architectures. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
