Bug#765456: ogre-1.8: FTBFS on arm64

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + wontfix

2014-10-15 13:06 GMT+01:00 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
<manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>:
> 2014-10-15 10:26 GMT+01:00 Edmund Grimley Evans
> <edmund.grimley.evans at gmail.com>:
>> Source: ogre-1.8
>> Version: 1.8.0+dfsg1-7
>>
>> It failed to build on arm64:
>
> Thanks for the report and the suggestion.
>
> I patched ogre-1.9 at the time (for arm64, mips64el and ppc64le), and
> submitted the patch upstream.  I did not imagine that ogre-1.8 would
> survive for so long in unstable, ogre-1.9 has been out for a year now,
> and all development and bugfixes in 1.8 were stopped long before that.
> By the time that the next Debian stable is released, there would have
> been no support from upstream more than a year, so I don't even know
> if it's very wise to ship 1.8 in the next stable release.
>
> The packages depending on 1.8 at the moment are:
>
> - leaf packages (funguloids, and ember -- which is obsolete since long
> ago, 0.7 has been out for close to two years)
>
> - libogre-perl (I guess that these bindings to develop OGRE from Perl;
> which, if it does not target the most recent versions of OGRE, is of
> little use)
>
> - cegui, also needing an update for more than a year (a transition to
> newer versions has been ignored for a long time: #732763).  cegui
> itself is not available neither in arm64 nor in ppc64el (unmet
> dependencies), and it also will fail to build from source once the
> deps are available (#758528).
>
>
> So, in summary, I don't think that any of these packages are
> particularly important to have in a stable port of a new architecture
> like arm64, because all of them are quite outdated and with very few
> installations.
>
> So, all in all, I think that it's better to not attempt to fix this
> bug, and possibly make it RC (once arm64 is accepted as release
> architecture) to try to nudge packages to move to the newer 1.9.

In the end this package was shipped in Jessie, without being built for
arm64.  I plan to ask for this version to be removed in unstable and
so it will not be present in the next stable release.

I am marking this bug as 'wontfix', because realistically there is not
much point in having it built in arm64 when it is itself obsolete
(version 1.9 available for a long time, both 1.10 and 2.x series with
big changes hopefully coming soon) and the versions of the reverse
dependencies are obsolete (CEGUI) or will have to be updated to work
with newer versions of OGRE as well.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>