Re: Regarding architectures.
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 10:13:13PM +0530, Viral wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a package, vcdimager, which doesn't build on the arm architecture,
> because of the way gcc handles bitfields on arm.
>
> It is non-trivial to fix this problem right away, so I would like to know
> what is a good thing to do.
>
> Is it ok, to put the rest of the architectures in the Architecture field,
> leaving out arm, or should I wait till it builds on arm. Otherwise, the
> package doesn't make its way into testing.
You do not bypass bugs by ignoring architectures. If it's truely a bug
in your package (and it sounds like it is), then fix it, or get someone
else to. Until then, it wont go into testing, and this is the right
thing to do.
Ben
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