Re: RFS: tcng (updated) (1 RC, 3 non-RC bugs)
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:44:41AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I seem to have issues getting hold on the previous sponsor (busy/bus/SA ?),
> and there's a number of bugs that could use uploading.
Try 2. Sponsoring fixes for RC bugs earns you karma, right?
> The updated package can be found at:
> dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tcng/tcng_10b-2.dsc
>
> The issues fixed are:
>
> * FTBFS on amd64:
> It appears that new glibc is more picky about the order of #includes (on
> amd64 only). One of header files defines __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES which
> changes the behaviour of other parts -- but only if it's seen soon enough.
By the way, there's a BTS shove/ignore fest between libc-dev and
linux-libc-dev. Related bugs include #434040, #435700, #429064. Yet, since
it is trivial to work around the issue here, there's no need to wait.
> * TeX transition:
> Build-depending only on texlive-latex-base cuts down half a GB of junk.
> * Incorrectly cleared ingress rules:
> A functionality bug.
> * A manpage:
> Instead of a stub which says "see this 180KB text file", I took an excerpt
> from said file which describes command-line arguments.
> * Wrapper madness:
> The upstream package looks for data in whatever directory the package was
> _built_ unless it's overridden with an env var. The /usr/bin/ binary is:
> #!/bin/sh
> TCNG_TOPDIR=/usr/lib/tcng exec /usr/lib/tcng/bin/tcc "$@"
> which seems not robust enough. I changed the build system to set up the
> paths at configure time.
> * Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser
>
> Speaking of the last item, step-by-step diffs are linked from
> http://angband.pl/viewvc/deb/tcng/trunk/?view=log
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