Re: sdcv question

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Michal Čihař [Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:52:28 +0200]:

> Hello

> I recently took over orphaned package sdcv, moved patches to quilt and
> did several intrusive changes in packaging. While doing this I enabled
> testing during build and it discovered that the binary is broken on
> several architectures - namely arm, armel, sparc and ia64 (bug #500921).
> This bug was not found for packages in testing because no testing was
> done there and probably nobody uses the package on these architectures.

> The question now is whether I should try to push fixes to testing or
> not. Getting freeze exception for package in current unstable is
> probably not an option as there are quite a lot of unrelated
> packaging changes (I believe none of them is really problematic, but
> there is simply lot of them). So should I upload through TPU, just
> forget the issue (as there is no bug opened) or will be package
> granted a freeze exception?

> Please CC on reply, I'm not on the list...

What is the fix that makes the package work in those architectures? (As
in, is it very invasive? Is it a targetted fix?)

Thanks,

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