Bug#733578: hwinfo/21.0-1 needs updates / FTBFS of libx86emu

[Sebastien Badia <seb@sebian.fr>]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 02:46:33AM (+0100), Johann Felix Soden wrote:
> Hi Sebastien, hi Tomasz,
> 
> I have not yet completely reviewed hwinfo 21.0-1, but
> there is at least one thing which needs to be fixed:

Hi Johann,

Thanks for your time and this review!

>  - debian/libhd21.symbols is incomplete on i386. A fixed version is 
>    attached.
> 
> And I found trailing whitespaces in old debian/changelog entries and
> debian/libhd-doc.doc-base.

The master branch is up-to-date according your comments, thanks !

> Since related, here some comments about libx86emu:
> 
> At the moment, it FTBFS on some architectures [mips, mipsel,
> powerpc, ...] because of missing sys/io.h.
> As the new hwinfo depends on it, this restricts the architectures where
> it will be available. So this should be fixed before hwinfo is uploaded
> - for example by fixing libx86emu itself or by reducing the dependency
> to the architectures where it is really available.

Hum, and it's not a missing dependency to libc6-dev ? (I'm maybe wrong)

> Actually, the libx86 package contains a copy of libx86emu
> and has therefore similar problems [1,2]. Please contact Anibal Monsalve
> Salazar (anibal@debian.org) who maintains it. Especially for the
> security team, it would be nice, if it could use the new libx86emu
> package instead of including its own copy.

Contacted :-)

Thanks a lot,

Seb

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Sebastien Badia