How to cope with bad package
How should a package build script cope with a fault
in a package used in a build?
The situation: there is a fatal bug in the 'ocaml' binary
package for the amd64 architecture. This package would
contain the native code ocaml compiler for amd64, which
has a bug. Native code compilers for x86 works.
The debian/rules can detect amd64, and there is a way
to force the upstream source to not use the native code
compiler.
However, the problem will probably be fixed, but I cannot
predict in which release of Ocaml.
I propose to 'hack' debian/rules to cope. Would that
be the proper way?
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