Re: Changes in sys.platform affects some packages?
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 06:18:08PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> Dear Debian Python,
>
> I just discovered (the hard way) that the recent change in Python[1] to
> display sys.platform on mips, mipsel, alpha, sparc, powerpc and hppa
> as linux2-mips, linux2-mips, linux2-alpha, linux2-sparc,
> linux2-powerpc and linux2-hppa respectively may cause several packages
> in sid and Lenny to FTBFS. For example, see:
Actually, that powerpc thing was wrong. It's only mips, mipsel, alpha
and sparc.
Sorry.
> http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status/package.php?p=matplotlib&suite=testing
>
> While I can fix matplotlib my just editing the build_fix.patch file to
> add these entries, I wanted an approval that this is what I have to
> do. Note that this may affect other packages in both sid and Lenny,
> though I am not sure how many packages are sensitive to sys.platform
> during their build.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kumar
>
> [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500383
> [2]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=499132
> --
> Kumar Appaiah
Kumar
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