On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:11:25 +0100, Stuart Prescott wrote: > > Hi again! > > A couple of weeks ago, I requested an unblock for pyxplot and (quite sensibly) > it was suggested that a little more time in sid would be appropriate first. > > On Saturday 14 August 2010 06:39:28 Julien Cristau wrote: > > Please get back to us in a couple of weeks if no issues have popped up > > with the new version. The diff is large enough that I'd like to keep it > > some more time in unstable first. > > The version in unstable has now been there for three weeks without any new > issues popping up. Can you please unblock it now? > Unblocked. > On Saturday 14 August 2010 06:46:04 Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > > The "doc" target in your debian/rules file is executed no matter which > > packages dh will act on. On buildds, arch:all packages are not uploaded > > since dpkg-genchanges is called with "-B" flag. In your case, it "might" > > allow it to build¹ on ia64 (and will save resources on buildd machines). > > Could you please generate the documentation only when needed? > > This is an excellent point and I had considered doing this when splitting off > the doc package; however building the documentation, while unnecessary for > building the binary packages, does act as a test suite for the arch-dependent > parts. In building the documentation, 60 different figures are created which > exercises pyxplot quite well. In the absence of a formal test suite, I'd like > to keep it there -- it found the bigendian problem for me (#591538) and it > seems to have found another build problem on ia64 too. I'm assuming that > pyxplot on ia64 is in some way broken rather than it just being the > documentation that's failing to build (I don't have access to ia64 to work on > this at present; that's for squeeze+1 at this stage). I guess I could split > off the latex parts of generating the documentation. It wouldn't trim the B-D > list much at all but would save a little buildd time; your patch will make a > reasonable starting point for doing that. Thanks ;) > Sounds sane, thanks for the explanation. Thanks for your work. Julien
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