Re: Probably transient build failure in NMU of "john"

[Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net>]

Hi Kevin,

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:49:27AM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> Yesterday I uploaded an NMU of "john" to fix one important and one RC
> bug in the hopes it can get into Etch.  Unfortunately there was a build
> failure on mipsel [0].  But the build failure has no real apparent cause
> and it looks like a sort of weird transient problem that has even been
> reported before [1].
> 
> [0]
> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=john&ver=1.6-40.1&arch=mipsel&stamp=1173912944&file=log
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/358295
> 
> I emailed mipsel@buildd.d.o yesterday to request a requeue, but nothing
> has happened yet.  If anyone on this list would be able to try
> rebuilding john 1.6-40.1 on mipsel and let me know the results, it would
> be greatly appreciated.  If anyone has direct contact with the mipsel

I had no problem building the package in an Etch system on mipsel.

> buildd maintainer and could ask that person about it directly, or could
> themselves make a binary upload of john 1.6-40.1 for mipsel, it would be
> even more appreciated :-)

Sorry, I'm not a Debian developer and cannot upload it ...

> Please CC me since I'm not on this list.

Jens