[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#746863: FTBFS src:insighttoolkit4

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:24:26PM -0400, Matt McCormick wrote:
> > The build of the new gccxml was successful (one patch dropped, merged upstream and nothing more to say).
> > And the rebuild of insighttoolkit4 with the new gccxml too (only tested i386).
> >
> > So for this package should just be needed a rebuild (and to tightteen the build dependencies for gccxml) and for the latter a new upload seems to fix this issue.
> 
> Super!

+1
 
> > Steve, since you are uploader of both packages, do you think is feasible this solution?
> > I can do it if you allow me to, but I'll need a sponsor and a NMU for a new upstream snapshot is not a good idea.
> >
> 
> Steve mentioned he would be out on vacation for a week starting
> yesterday.  I'm not how that impacts the Debian process.

I could do the sponsering if needed.  Please confirm that
debian/makeSource.sh really fetches the source you are working on.
I also think *if* I would do the upload and nobody would beat me
I would switch to xz compression for the original tarball.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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