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

[Aurelien Jarno]

James Troup wrote:
> Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32.net> writes:
> 
>> First it would have been nice to expose your opposition before, that
>> would have let us 50+ days to dig into the problem.
> 
> Well, it'd be nice if I had a pony too, but I don't.
> 
>> Saying "it works on Ubuntu" is not a right answer.
> 
> I didn't say it was the 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.
> 
> ITYM, "totally retarded in Debian's case", but I'll not quibble.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Dude, that's not how this works.  You want to make a change that
> deviates us from upstream, that means you get to justify the chane in
> a manner that's sufficient that I can both understand it and feel
> confident in proposing it upstream.
> 
>> That's why I don't understand why you don't want the same for i386
>> on amd64.
> 
> I didn't say I didn't want it, I said I wanted it explained.
> 
>>> 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 may not have answered it, but I was tracking it's progress upstream,
> and it's worth noting that the patch as originally posted was rejected
> there...  

Well this patch has been merged upstream in November 2005, and has been 
fixed in Debian when the new upstream version has been packaged.

The only missing part is Debian specific, so you can wait a lot of time 
before it is fixed upstream.


> If anyone had asked the status of the bug, that's what I would have
> told them.
> 
>> I was wanting to do a porter NMU for amd64 and kfreebsd-i386.
> 
> Sorry, but "porter NMU" doesn't give you free reign to ignore the
> maintainer.
> 

That's exactly why I warned you before doing the NMU.

I would add that being a maintainer doesn't give you free reign to 
ignore the bug reporter.

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