[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#859667: libundead: FTBFS on armhf and ppc64el: tests fail

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Matthias,

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:53:25AM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> 
> Those issues are usually easy to fix, most often it's either some
> stuff that is not linked or was compiled with the wrong D version, or
> a missing source file. In this case it was the latter, I added it to
> the Meson build definition and everything works.
> Changes are committed to Git :-)

Thanks for the fix to build the latest upstream version of libundead.

Unfortunately the issue of the bug remains also in this version. :-(

> > In practice most packages of Debian Med are used on amd64.  So for
> > practical usage this is possibly no real constraint.
> 
> I am currently planning to add a new "dcompiler" metapackage for use
> in Debian packaging that will install ldc or gdc depending on the
> architecture, so we have one compiler with at least some level of
> upstream support on each architecture. That might be a way forward
> here.

I admit I'm a bit concerned about this kind of tricks.  Seems the whole
D infrastructure is quite in flux and only available to a very
restricted set of architectures.  Wouldn't it be more on the safe side
to stick only to amd64 and i386 where it seems to be tested and leave
out all other architectures?

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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