Re: ITR: varkon (updated package)
Matthias Julius <lists@julius-net.net> writes:
> Matthias Julius <lists@julius-net.net> writes:
>
>> I will address the other points you mentioned earlier and also the
>> issues Erik mentioned tonight (hopefully, maybe tomorrow) when I get
>> home.
>
> OK, it took a little longer than two days, but I had a lot of things
> going on. And I fixed a couple more little issues I discovered
> myself.
>
> I have tried to address all of your concerns except the "varkon:
> arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share" message from lintian which I want
> to take care of in a later upload. Also I havn't come up with example
> files, yet. I am currently trying to do that.
This beast is trickier than I thought.
I have started a discussion on the Varkon mailing list and confirmed
that the files the package puts in /usr/share/varkon are in fact arch
specific. I will therefore move them to /usr/lib/varkon.
Also, Varkon is not 64bit safe. I have noticed myself that the
compiler complains a lot about castings between integers and pointers
of different size when I build it for amd64. When asked on the list
upstream also confirmed that Varkon currently does not support 64bit
archs.
What is the best way to deal with that issue until it is fixed
properly upstream? Should I just disable all 64bit architectures for
the varkon package?
Matthias
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