Re: libsereal-encoder-perl exclude s390x until it is fixed

[Alex Mestiashvili <alex@biotec.tu-dresden.de>]

On 09/16/2014 12:38 PM, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:08:33 +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
>
> > libsereal-encoder-perl FTBFS on s390x - see for details #742409.
> It also fails to build on other architectures:
> http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=libsereal-encoder-perl&suite=unstable
>
> At least (arm64 where it builds and) ppc64 might become release
> architectures for jessie.
>   
> > Can I exclude s390x from architectures for libsereal-encoder-perl until the
> > problem is resolved ?
> If we do this, we
> - would need to exclude ppc64 as well, probably
> - exclude both -encoder- and -decoder-
>    (that only one fails is due to the recursive build-dep which is
>    broken so that only one uses the other; in fact the code is the
>    same for both); actually #742409 should be assigned to both
> - request removal of the old binaries
> - manually build each new release on s390x and ppc64 to see if they
>    work now
>
> All together, this doesn't sound very attractive to me.
>
> (And I'm generally not very happy about the included und patched
> csnappy code ...)
>
> Cheers,
> gregor

Hehe, I expected that it is a bad idea :)
Then let's wait for the upstream.

Thank you,
Alex