Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.
Charles,
it would be much more productive for Debian if you wouldn't claim wrong things
and start fixing the issue in at least this package. The mass-filing proposal
was sent in January to this very list. It's not my problem if you don't read
this list or ignore proposals for mass bug filings.
The bug itself (#744664) is not fixed in 1.13.5-1.1, the issue that you merged
back (thanks for this) was a build failure on arm64. This is a build failure on
ppc64el. The reason for this are outdated libtool.m4 and/or aclocal.m4 files,
resulting in shared libraries not being built. Please note that exactly this is
mentioned in the bug report. You did close it apparently without reading. And
without fixing.
This batch of new issues had some false positives, which I hope are now closed.
However this test rebuild was done a few weeks ago, but didn't finish on some
architectures until recently, so you see some reported for superseded version
numbers.
I assume there are a few people who want to see new ports available in Debian,
and in the case of arm64, Wookey is already working on it. If you can provide
him with the necessary hardware, I'm sure he wants to do such a test rebuild
with sid or jessie. I can't. And I do see value seeing Debian prepared for new
ports.
Matthias
Am 14.04.2014 00:44, schrieb Charles Plessy:
> Le Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 04:52:11PM +0000, Matthias Klose a écrit :
>> Package: src:staden-io-lib
>> Version: 1.13.2-3
>> User: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>> Usertags: autoreconf
>>
>> The package fails to build on ppc64el (powerpc64le-linux-gnu), because
>> the config.{guess,sub} files are out of date, and are not updated during
>> the build. If possible, please do not update these files directly,
>> but build-depend on autotools-dev instead, and use the tools provided
>> by autotools-dev to update these files.
>
>> Please note that these builds were done in an Ubuntu development,
>> environment there may be a few false positives in these bug reports.
>
> Hi Matthias,
>
> I answer on debian-devel, since this is the place where mass bug filings have
> to be proposed.
>
> You report a bug against staden-io-lib 1.13.2-3, which is not the version in
> Jessie or Sid.
>
> staden-io-lib | 1.12.4-1 | squeeze | source
> staden-io-lib | 1.12.4-1 | wheezy | source
> staden-io-lib | 1.13.5-1.1 | jessie | source
> staden-io-lib | 1.13.5-1.1 | sid | source
>
> In version 1.13.3-1, uploaded to Sid on 30 Nov 2013, we already imported the
> changes from Ubuntu's package version 1.13.2-3ubuntu1, introducing “--with
> dh_autotools-dev” in debian/rules.
>
> I understand that it easier for Ubuntu to test new architectures on Ubuntu
> itself and that the version of packages you test is Ubuntu's business, not
> mine, but nevertheless, for mass bug reports in Debian, I think that it would
> be better to base them on Sid (or Jessie when appropriate, which would not be
> the case here).
>
> Or if you base your reports on Ubuntu, could you add a filter that checks
> the version numbers and helps you to reduce the false positives ?
>
> Have a nice day,
>
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