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

[James Troup]

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...  

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.

-- 
James