Allowing a FTBFS-free qhull package into testing
The qhull package currently FTBFS on hppa [1]. I investigated the issue
closely and found that the culprit is the eperl package [2] which hangs on
hppa. It seems that problems with eperl started to happen after version
2.2.14-15.1+b1 was uploaded, which was built against perl 5.10 (according to
the Debian changelog, on May 2, 2008). Indeed, version 2003.1-9 of qhull
built correctly [3] on penalosa on April 21, 2008, against eperl version
2.2.14-15.1.
I prepared a new package for qhull that differs minimally from the version
currently in testing (2003.1-9) and would like to know whether it is
possible to upload it to testing-proposed-updates. I did this because the
version currently in unstable (2003.1-10lenny1, this is a misnomer, sorry)
has extra changes from 2003.1-9.
Anyway, the debdiff between 2003.1-9 and 2003.1-9lenny1 is attached below.
It is extremely thin, with the essential change being only one line in
debian/rules. Sed is used instead of eperl for building the manpages
lacking upstream. I put the package in a repository on people.d.o [4], for
your appreciation.
Please, consider allowing this version into testing-proposed-updates.
[1] http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=qhull&arch=hppa&ver=2003.1-10lenny1&stamp=1217730801&file=log&as=raw
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/eperl/494191
[3] http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=qhull;ver=2003.1-9;arch=hppa;stamp=1208763064
[4] http://people.debian.org/~rafael/qhull
Thanks,
--
Rafael
diff -u qhull-2003.1/debian/changelog qhull-2003.1/debian/changelog
--- qhull-2003.1/debian/changelog
+++ qhull-2003.1/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+qhull (2003.1-9lenny1) testing-proposed-updates; urgency=low
+
+ * debian/rules: Use sed instead of eperl to generate the man pages.
+ Eperl is buggy on hppa (see Bug#49419) and the package FTBFS there.
+ * debian/manpage.in: Adapt for using sed
+ * debian.control:
+ + Drop build-dependency on eperl
+ + Build-depends on docbook-xml. This avoid timeouts due to the failed
+ attempt to load the external entity docbookx.dtd (needed for the
+ Debian-provided man pages) when network connection is not available.
+ + Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0 (no changes needed)
+
+ -- Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:25:19 +0200
+
qhull (2003.1-9) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/manpage.in:
diff -u qhull-2003.1/debian/manpage.in qhull-2003.1/debian/manpage.in
--- qhull-2003.1/debian/manpage.in
+++ qhull-2003.1/debian/manpage.in
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@
<!ENTITY dhsection "<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>">
<!ENTITY dhemail "<email>rafael@debian.org</email>">
<!ENTITY dhusername "Rafael Laboissiere">
- <!ENTITY dhucpackage "<refentrytitle><:=$command:></refentrytitle>">
- <!ENTITY dhpackage "<:=$command:>">
+ <!ENTITY dhucpackage "<refentrytitle>#command#</refentrytitle>">
+ <!ENTITY dhpackage "#command#">
<!ENTITY debian "<productname>Debian</productname>">
- <!ENTITY docfile "/usr/share/doc/libqhull-dev/html/<:=$command:>.htm">
+ <!ENTITY docfile "/usr/share/doc/libqhull-dev/html/#command#.htm">
]>
<!-- Template manual page for the Qhull commands, DocBook source file
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
<refnamediv>
<refname>&dhpackage;</refname>
- <refpurpose><:=$purpose:></refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>#purpose#</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
diff -u qhull-2003.1/debian/rules qhull-2003.1/debian/rules
--- qhull-2003.1/debian/rules
+++ qhull-2003.1/debian/rules
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
comm=`echo $$info | cut -d: -f1` ; \
purp=`echo $$info | cut -d: -f2` ; \
echo -n Building man page for $$comm... ; \
- eperl -d command=$$comm -d purpose="$$purp" \
+ sed "s/#command#/$$comm/;s/#purpose#/$$purp/" \
manpage.in > $$comm.xml ; \
docbook2x-man $$comm.xml ; \
echo " done" ; \
diff -u qhull-2003.1/debian/control qhull-2003.1/debian/control
--- qhull-2003.1/debian/control
+++ qhull-2003.1/debian/control
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Debian Scientific Computing Team <pkg-scicomp-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uploaders: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>
-Standards-Version: 3.7.3
+Standards-Version: 3.8.0
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), docbook2x (>= 0.8.8-3), xsltproc,
- eperl, cdbs, quilt
+ docbook-xml, cdbs, quilt
Homepage: http://www.qhull.org
Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-scicomp/qhull/
Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-scicomp/qhull/
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