Re: give-back pcre3

[Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>]

Hi,

On 03/08/18 17:51, Helmut Grohne wrote:

> The last pcre3 upload failed to build on most architectures including
> amd64. I looked into the problem today and figured that a simple rebuild
> would "fix" the problem. I presume that this is due to a gcc-8 upload
> since. A give-back will only work around the issue at best, and #904506
> is still there. Still it will remove the urgency. Presently the pcre3
> source/binary version skew breaks bootstrap QA as pcre3 builds
> transitively essential packages. So please consider giving it back to
> help with QA. If it fails again, I'll look into NMUing.

I'm sorry, I can't understand your message. Can you try explaining 
again, please?

The problem with the recent upload (which I built with gcc-8) is that 
the symbols file that works on my i386 machine is not sufficient to 
build on some architectures, so it needs further patches (see #904506) 
to produce a symbols file that works on other archs. I've not had this 
problem before.

Regards,

Matthew