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Re: Freeze exception for pyxplot



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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