Re: Current build status of the mips port

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Hi Thiemo

Thanks for this status report.

Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> I went again through the mips build problems and collected the appended
> list which records the current state, with a few annotations added.

> Needs retry
> -----------

All given back when still needed. Please don't include packages in such
a listing that have a sane wanna-build state: packages in Needs-Build or
Dep-Wait or Building (for a normal amount of time)...

> Maybe needs retry (TODO: check)
> -------------------------------
> -- Qt ABI, fix by waiting for next Qt version --
> kde4libs	# needs rebuild to fix ABI (or wait for new version)
> kdebase-runtime
> merkaartor
> universalindentgui
> sailcut
> psi
> ktoon		# Broken qt ABI

Do they or do they not need wanna-build magick?

> -- ghc6 stuff --
> washngo		# vm exhausted, (arm armel mips mipsel powerpc)
> haskell-haskell-src # vm exhausted, (mips mipsel alpha)
> lhs2tex
> pandoc
> gtkrsync
> highlighting-kate
> haskell-happs-data
> haskell-happs-ixset
> haskell-happs-server
> haskell-happs-state
> haskell-happs-util
> haskelldb-hsql-mysql
> haskelldb-hsql-odbc
> haskelldb-hsql-postgresql
> haskelldb-hsql-sqlite3
> arch2darcs
> darcs-buildpackage
> hpodder

Will these probably build fine when retried?

> -- other --
> mlt		# (ia64 mips mipsel powerpc)
> vdr-plugin-live
> kde-style-qtcurve # not reproducible, but see #462001, (amd64 arm hppa mips powerpc s390 sparc)
> mozart
> gpsdrive
> libgtk-java	# needs libcairo-java-dev
> qtnx		# needs libnxcl1
> tuxguitar
> music-applet	# needs libxml-parser-perl, (mips mipsel powerpc)
> mplayer		# (hppa mips mipsel powerpc sparc)
> edenmath.app
> gnome-chemistry-utils
> virt-manager
> gsynaptics
> ucspi-proxy
> epiphany-extensions

What does this list mean?

> Should be in in P-a-s (or not-for-us?)
> --------------------------------------

Did you contact P-a-s administrators (and buildd maintainers) about it?

Cheers

Luk