control: tag -1 + pending Hello, On Thu 23 Feb 2023 at 12:27PM -04, Joey Hess wrote: > Sean Whitton wrote: >> Joey, do you know why d/control restricts these build deps as it does? > > IIRC some of those deps are or were not available on some architectures > like m68k. And the deps used to be gated behind the webapp build flag, > so it would still build on those architectures without them installed. > > (I don't know how to get rmadison to display what packages are available > on m68k? If those deps are avilable now, you could make git-annex use > them.) > > Unfortunately, commit 78440ca37d75039d5eadd52eafbcd1751daba70a moved > those build dependencies from behind that build flag. See commit for > details; for some reason a new version of cabal changed its > behavior in a way that seemed buggy, and that was the only workaround > I could come up with at the time. > > One way you could get git-annex to build on arches where those build > deps are not available would be to remove those build deps from the cabal > file when building on those arches, and turning off the Assistant build > flag. > > I think I have a better way though. The attached patch seems to work > around that cabal problem in a way that will keep git-annex building > when those deps are not installd. It should be in the next release of > git-annex. Thank you very much for the information and for the patch. Given our freeze, I can add m68k to the list of architectures for those build-deps, but I don't think we should apply Joey's patch for now. But let's let 10.20230126 migrate to testing first. I've committed the change to git; please remind me if I don't upload it a couple of days from now. -- Sean Whitton
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