Re: Bug#276948: package 'vncserver' should be removed from amd64
Hi Steve
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 08:55:55PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> severity 276948 grave
> thanks
>
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 04:56:36PM +0300, Teodor wrote:
> > The 'vncserver' package is not working and FTBFS on amd64 architecture:
> > #276948 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276948>.
>
> Where does it fail to build? The package is up to date on all archs.
It do not fail to build. Not as far as I know at least.
> "Not working" is a problem, of course, and is what the cited bug report
> talks about.
Yes that is a problem, on all amd64 arches.
> > Because of this I propose to be removed from unstable (and automatically
> > from lenny). Maybe the 'vnc' source package should be removed along with
> > all the binary packages built from this?
>
> Why, what's wrong with the other binary packages built from the vnc source?
>
> Anyway, debian-release is not the right place to propose such a removal.
> Binary-only package removals need to go through the package maintainer or,
> at least, an NMUer; only once the source package is fixed up wrt this
> removal should the binary removal be requested through the ftp team.
>
> As a first step, let's fix the severity of the bug. This should have been
> RC all along - amd64 is not our only 64-bit architecture, so if vncserver is
> not 64-bit-clean, that needs to be dealt with (one way or another) instead
> of leaving broken binaries in the archive.
I agree to some extent, but I'm not fully sure that it should be grave.
I classified it as important as the problem is only seen on 64 bit arches.
> > The same package(s) is(are) included in the stable/etch release. Is it
> > possible to remove a package after the release?
>
> Yes, though of course fixing the package would be far preferable.
I actually think that we should simply remove build for amd64 for this
package. vnc4 is available. The only problem there is that some development
libraries will not be available in this case.
But removing the entire package is not good at this point (becuase of the
development packages).
So what do you think it the best solution?
* Remove amd64 build.
* Remove entire package (it will require some work on vnc4 package to build
the development libraries).
* Fix the problem (I need a big patch for that) and I do not think it is
worth the effort. I do not have access to amd64 machine so I can not
test it either.
* Keep as is
Best regards,
// Ola
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