Re: Please don't ship current Aqsis and K3D versions in Squeeze
Hello Philipp, *,
On Friday 06 August 2010 19:17:59 Philipp Kern wrote:
> > Anyhow, the thing is that probably nobody ever ran Aqsis on HPPA, the
> > more professional users of Aqsis would surely use top-notch hardware
> > and they won't bother with versions 4 years old. More informal users
> > would probably use more common desktop machines at home, not HPPA. So
> > from my point of view, it doesn't make any sense to ship this software
> > with a version about ~4 years old just because it doesn't build on
> > HPPA machines.
>
> please file a partial binary removal request against ftp.debian.org to
> remove the hppa binary and do no further uploads until the package
> migrated to testing. That should solve the issue of the package not
> going in.
OK, that sounds like a good plan to me. I'll wait a few days to see if
David or anybody has anything else about this, otherwise I'll apply this
solution.
> > I tried to use the conditional dependency [linux-any] for this package
> > (K3D *can* work without this library, only that it has the related
> > features disabled); but pbuilder doesn't support it and I was told
> > that the daemons on buildd farm don't support it either, although
> > there were people trying to fix it. Maybe there's a way to get this
> > working now.
>
> I think that conditional build-dependencies should work. It's indeed
> true that edos-debcheck on the wanna-build side might not, but if this
> is the case please file a bug against buildd.debian.org after it has
> been uploaded. The package can be given to the builders overriding this
> check, too.
>
> Again, maybe the solution of aqsis might help here too.
OK, same as above.
Thanks for the help :)
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>
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