[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#716727: Bug#716727: geda-gaf: unbuildable on ia64 due to missing guile-2.0

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 18:32 -0400, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> "Adam D. Barratt" <adam at adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> > geda-gaf added guile-2.0 as a build-dependency, but that package does
> > not exist on ia64; geda-gaf is therefore no longer buildable on that
> > architecture.
> 
> Hrm.  There's not much point in holding release of new versions of
> geda-gaf up due to failure to build on ia64.
> 
> Unless someone plans to get guile-2.0 building on ia64, the best
> solution may be to just evict the ia64 build of geda-gaf from the
> archive entirely.  I strongly suspect it's not used anywhere.

It doesn't look like guile-2.0 has managed to build on ia64 in the
couple of years it's been in the archive; maintainers (CCed) - is there
any likelihood that it will?

Regards,

Adam