Possible problems in your Debian packages

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 08:03:01AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 01:40, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> wrote:
>>> === csound:
>>> = 1 Release Goals bug(s):
>>> - #414330 <http://bugs.debian.org/414330>
>>>   csound: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD: missing OS detection
>>>   Part of release goal: kfreebsd-* as release architectures
>>
>> has been uploaded on April 14, I guess this is handled
>
>No, its not. The csound build system relies extensively on testing for
>'linux' for lots of functionality. Porting work is needed, but I don't
>have time or motivation for that. I don't think many people will use
>csound from freebsd, there's not much point.

One point in ensuring support also on alien architectures is to shake 
out weird bugs appearing first on odd system and maybe only through 
carefully crafted evil hacks on more popular ones.

Man power is still needed to do the actual work, though.


  - Jonas

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