Bug#870204: RFS: openfst/1.6.3-1 -- weighted finite-state transducers library

[Giulio Paci <giuliopaci@gmail.com>]

Dear Adam,

On 17/08/2017 22:07, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 08:24:59PM +0200, Giulio Paci wrote:
>> Dear mentors,
>> 	as Jakub, my former sponsor for this package, is not available, I am looking for a new sponsor.
>>
>> Please note that this package also closes #871170 (FTBFS with gcc-7).
> 
> I've already test-built for a subset of architectures (arm64 43189 seconds,
> armhf 27725, unjay!), then got distracted.  Sorry for that.

No problem. :-)

> How are you going to handle the transition?  Have you tried rebuilding your
> reverse dependencies?  If not, should I do that for you?

I had not, but I did today.

phonetisaurus is not building and will require an update in order to make it work with openfst 1.6.3.
I talked with upstream and there are a lot of unreleased updates (probably there will be a new release next week).
Unfortunately the build system and requirements have several differences from the current packaged version, so it will require some time to fix this package.

opengrm-ngram is not building with gcc-7, but I have already packaged the latest upstream release, that fixes gcc-7 compilation and that compiles with openfst 1.6.3.

> As you maintain all of the rdeps, you'll handle the transition as a single
> block, right?

I guess we should upload openfst and opengrm-ngram at the same time (even now).
I will need more extensive work for phonetisaurus and I am not currently able to predict when that package will be ready.

How do you suggest to deal with this situation?

Best regards,
Giulio