Bug#883702: RFS: lina/5.3.0-1 ( #859130 ITP: lina -- iso-compliant Forth interpreter and compiler )
On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 10:18:32AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> Control: owner -1 !
Great! Good to see someone with an interest in the package.
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 08:26:45PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > I'm afraid the package fails to build,
> > you need to add fasm to Build-Depends.
>
> Yes, we ((Albert & Geert) , who did meet 2017-12-21 ) can confirm
> that fasm needs to be added to Build-Depends.
>
> About the "no packages needs to be build" we did see last night.
>
> That is because 'Architecture: i386' in debian/control
> and doing `debuild -uc -us` on an amd64 computer.
Mere "debuild" is no good for review purposes, as it doesn't use a clean
chroot (might be still good for finding build-conflicts, though).
> Having 'Architecture: amd64 i386' builds a package on amd64.
Making the package work natively on amd64 (even if using i386 assembly)
could be useful, yeah. Being i386-only is not a show stopper, though -- I
believe d-i adds i386 multiarch by default these days.
> Would it be okay to do another upload to mentors.debian.net for 5.3.0-1 ?
>
> (a next upload to debian would have an incremented debian version ( e.g. 5.3.0-2 ) )
m.d.n allows replacing a package with the same version, yeah. And no one
uploaded lina to Debian yet.
> > Before we even start, it would be nice if you could address the rest of
> > issues detected by lintian -- an automated system saves a lot of human time.
>
> Precious time of reviewers. (and yes, it does cost precious time from
> the maintainer ( hey it gets higher quality ))
I believe it saves the maintainer's time as well: preparing a mentors upload
does take effort, so does writing an update mail, then handling the answer.
We should advertise "lintian -i" more -- its explanations are pretty good,
probably more helpful than a 1-2 line mention I tend to write.
Meow!
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