Bug#432666: sauerbraten: segfaults on powerpc

[Reinhard Tartler]

Gürkan Sengün <gurkan at linuks.mine.nu> writes:

> Hello Bruno and Games Team
>
> Couly you please make it doesn't build on powerpc anymore and close this bug?
> (see the debian/control file, Architecture: field)

Please don't do that!

There is no way in debian/control to express "build on anything but,,,",
The only option you'd have is to make a list like "build only on...".

Better write some lines on the top of debian/rules which checks if it is
run on a blacklist of architectures (like powerpc), and use the $(error)
make command to fail the build. This way you can document why you are
failing the build, and make it trivial for powerpc porters to work on
this package.

As for overusing the buildds: The buildd maintainers will detect this
after the first failure, and add the package to the NFU list.

I'm doing this change in svn now.

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4