On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:02:21 -0400 (EDT), Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:11:16AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Hello, Bastian. Sorry to bother you. I reopened this bug log because >> it appears to be installable only on the amd64 architecture. I tried >> to install it today on the i386 architecture and it failed with the >> original symptoms. I have subscribed to this bug log; so there's no >> need to CC me. > > non-free is no longer autobuilt.
I hadn't heard that, but from searching the archives it appears that this has been the case at least as far back as 2002; so I don't think that's the problem. If I understand what's going on here, the problem is that 3270-common has a dependency on libicu40 for all architectures *except* amd64. For amd64, it has a dependency on libicu42 instead. Both of these packages are free. The problem is that libicu40 exists only in unstable and only for the m68k architecture. I think all that needs to be done is to change the dependencies of the package to depend on libicu42 for all architectures, not just for amd64, and to eliminate the dependency on libicu40. > > Since the popcon is quite low anyway, I'm not sure how useful popcon statistics are in general, but for a package like this they are almost useless. Corporate users of Debian almost always disable popcon for security reasons. popcon statistics are generally from individual home users who have elected to enable popcon, and they generally don't need a 3270 emulator. (Do you have a mainframe in your home?) It is mainly corporate users who need a 3270 emulator, and their desktops almost universally have popcon disabled. > > we could limit the availability to handbuilt versions for amd64 and > i386 In the first place, I don't see the need for that, and in the second place, I use this in the s390 architecture as well. Surely there must be a way to cross-build a package for another architecture. If there isn't, I can at least build an i386 and an s390 package for you from source, but I can't sign them, since I am not a DD or a DM. > > and file removal bugs for the outdated binaries from Lenny. That would not be good. Currently, installing back-level versions from Lenny is my only circumvention. Just make 3270-common depend on libicu42 for all architectures and remove the dependency on libicu40. That's not hard, is it? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
