[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#917721: Any chance to get libbiod compiling again?

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Pjotr,

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 05:43:08PM -0500, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> Libundead was removed as dependency for biod, but it may be there are
> some other issues now because the D ecosystem keeps moving.
> 
> My main interest is sambamba and we are working on a fix for one of
> the main outstanding bugs building against the latest D compilers.
> 
> I suggest to drop the packages until we have fixed them. Not many
> takers anyway (right now).

I think droping the packages from Debian completely is a bad idea.  They
would need to pass the new queue again when we decide to reintroduce
them which always takes some time.  So leaving them in unstable with the
bugs open is OK (there are worse package than these in Debian
unfortunately :-( )
 
> Andreas, I think we'll meet in Paris in November. May be a good time
> to hack.

Perfect.  I guess you can not trust me in hacking D :-P but may be its a
good oppoprtunity to hold a Debian packaging workshop for those
attendees who might be interested.  At the last Debian Med sprints I did
life packaging workshops where attendees can name a package they want to
see in Debian and than we did the packaging.  This turned out quite
successful since we needed to face practical problems (in contrast to
just read the docs and use the hello package example) and in the end
Debian just had one package more which was requested by the user (at
least in the successful cases).  It also explains how to integrate
smoothly into the Debian Med team.

What do you think?

Looking forward to see you again

    Andreas.

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