[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#369411: alsa-lib: FTBFS on AMD64 (32-bit link problems)

[Aurelien Jarno]

James Troup a écrit :
> Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32.net> writes:
> 
>> The bug is opened with a patch for a long time, so I plan to do a porter
>> NMU on friday morning UTC time, unless you oppose and upload a patched
>> version by yourself.
> 
> I do oppose an NMU as you haven't actually explained why this patch is
> necessary.  Ubuntu doesn't have this patch and yet has been building
> 32-bit alsa for several releases without problems.

First it would have been nice to expose your opposition before, that 
would have let us 50+ days to dig into the problem.

Saying "it works on Ubuntu" is not a right answer. Debian and Ubuntu are 
different, some choices are not the same, and it is precisely the case 
for bi-arch on amd64, where the location of the bi-arch libraries is 
totally different.

I don't have an Ubuntu machine so I can't do more work in that 
direction. It seems it is the case for you, so I let you propose another 
fix for this problem.

Anyway we are doing that for all other bi-arch architectures in Debian 
(amd64 on i386, sparc64 on sparc, ppc64 on powerpc, s390x on s390), 
either from upstream or from a debian patch (see 121_i386_x86_64_biarch 
for example). That's why I don't understand why you don't want the same 
for i386 on amd64. Also note removing the part I wanted to add on those 
architectures makes alsa-lib FTBFS in the same way as on amd64.


> And I absolutely do not want the untested ppc64 patch going in.

That's your choice, I respect it.


>> I am also planning to fix bug #315306 at the same time, as the patch is 
> 
> And don't do that either.  NMUs are not an excuse to get random pet
> bug fixes in.

It's not a random pet bug. It's a porting bug that has been opened for 
more than a year without any answer. I was wanting to do a porter NMU 
for amd64 and kfreebsd-i386.

Bye,
Aurelien

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