Re: Bug#573403: FTBFS: waf spinning for flowcanvas/hppa

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Marc Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de>, 2010-03-11, 08:04:
> > waf now breaks building of packages we need for a transition
> > (flowcanvas/hppa). It would be nice if someone would care enough to
> > either fix this or write a patch moving flowcanvas to sane build
> > system. Otherwise, I will remove flowcanvas from testing in a few days
> > to allow the liblo transition to happen.
>
> Let me take another sip of my coffee ... OK. Of course,
> s/liblo/graphviz/.

To make some things straight:

1. This does not really look like a waf's fault:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2010/01/msg00035.html

2. Nonetheless, waf sucks and its maintainer has shown some hostility 
to Debian:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/02/msg00714.html
So indeed, switching to a saner build system might be a best solution.

3. I have some ideas how to work-around those bugs, but I need a few 
more days.

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Jakub Wilk

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