Re: Bug#1082603: Should aboot be removed from unstable?
On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 11:58 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > Fixing this bug requires a little more work and effort and it's on my TODO
> > list. But since I am mostly doing this as a one-man show at the moment, it
> > takes a little longer.
>
> Well doing this makes it compile on amd64 for me.
>
> diff -ru aboot-1.0~pre20200212/debian/compat aboot-1.0~pre20200212.patched/debian/compat
> --- aboot-1.0~pre20200212/debian/compat 2020-03-07 05:33:09.000000000 -0500
> +++ aboot-1.0~pre20200212.patched/debian/compat 2024-09-23 11:51:00.072830809 -0400
> @@ -1 +1 @@
> -9
> +10
> diff -ru aboot-1.0~pre20200212/debian/rules aboot-1.0~pre20200212.patched/debian/rules
> --- aboot-1.0~pre20200212/debian/rules 2020-03-07 06:10:21.000000000 -0500
> +++ aboot-1.0~pre20200212.patched/debian/rules 2024-09-23 11:52:03.572991961 -0400
> @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
> $(MAKE) -C srmbootfat srmbootfat srmbootfat.1 CC=$(CC) $(shell dpkg-buildflags --export=configure)
> $(MAKE) -C doc/man
> $(MAKE) -C doc/man/de
> + $(MAKE) -C doc/faq
> rename 's/([a-z]*).([1,5,8])/\1.de.\2/' doc/man/de/*.[1,5,8]
> endif
>
>
> Not entirely sure it is exactly correct but it does build and does appear
> to put a reasonable set of files into the packages generated.
That's not the main problem, but the fact that the code cannot be cross-compiled:
> https://github.com/mattst88/aboot/issues/5
and:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=821332
aboot-cross depends on aboot-base, but aboot-base can only be fully built on alpha:
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/aboot/-/blob/master/debian/rules?ref_type=heads
palo does it correctly:
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/palo
So, it's really not just as trivial as removing one line. If it was, I would have
done that long ago.
Adrian
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