PDL maintenance in Debian Science VCS (was: pdl: FTBFS on mips, powerpc, s390x, sparc, (ia64): testsuite failures)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Henning,

On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 20:29:02 +0200 Henning Glawe <glaweh at debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 07:33:43PM +0800, xuhaida wrote:
> > Hi:
> > I'm playing pdl,but can't find this package in testing distribution
> > .After this post ,I know the reason but don't see any progress about it
> > . Is there any progress about this bug?
> Upstream is still working on this one; I don't have time to personally dig
> into it, as the original problem is deep inside PDL's core, and I have to
> finish writing up my PhD thesis :(
> Will join the effort as soon as I'm done ;)

I hope you were successfully working on your thesis. :-)

When stumbling upon this bug since one of the packages I'm caring for
(libtfbs-perl) depends from pdl and does not migrate I was wondering
whether you might like to consider team maintenance in Debian Science
team.  This would enable others to commit to the packaging.  This does
not warrant any fix for this very problem per se but it has turned out
that it was possible to safe packages in the past when the main
maintainer was busy.  (I also have put pkg-perl-maintainers in CC in
case these might be interested.)

BTW, since the build error says:

dpkg --build $(pwd)/debian/tmp ..
dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `/build/buildd/pdl-2.2.1/debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control' near line 6 package `pdl':
 `Depends' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name expected
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2

I wonder how this should be caused by a architecture dependant problem
with type sizes.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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