[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#949966: libgclib-dev: getLine ABI uses off_t and thus depends on _FILE_OFFSET_BITS

[Helmut Grohne]

Hi Andreas,

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 04:14:26PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> I have implemented a solution in Git[1] but want to discuss other options
> here.  Latest upstream version seem to need a SONAME bump anyway as far
> as I can see.

You can just set future=-lfs unconditionally. It really affects all
32bit archs. A better check might be $(DEB_HOST_ARCH_BITS)==32, but the
option is meaningless for 64bit, so you can really just set it without
any branching. Please save the next 32bit architecture the trouble from
having to add the option.

> I wonder what you think how important large file support in gffread might
> be for those rarely used architectures.

I don't make any statement on whether lfs is important. I just figured
that it fails to build from source. I didn't even read the package
description. ;)

Helmut