Bug#821766: gle-graphics: diff for NMU version 4.2.5-4.1

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 03:20:06PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> Note that this NMU reverts partly 4.2.5-4, at least for hurd, which might
> lead to unreproducbible build on hurd (not checked, priority is to fix the FTBFS.)

I invoked the reproducible gang, to have a fix that doesn't involve
faketime, which is not nice anyway, and maybe something that doesn't let
d/rules grow even more [1].



> IMHO a better approarch would beto split out the pdf into
> an arch:all package and build the doc in the Build-Indep target, but this is
> far too invasive for an NMU.

This is a even more thing, but orthogonal on having a reproducible fix
that doesn't involve faketime.

I'm going to cancel the NMU if I get a timely patch.

> (One of the NMU's target is to de-cruft vtk, which is required for an clean removal
> f libpng 1.2, which will happen soon)

is not only for the clean removal, it's also for really finally kicking
those old libs (it's not only vtk5 we're hunting down) from the
archive...


[1] that anyway, I wonder, there are so many little things that makes
me uneasy, like the calling autoreconf that ignores error and manually
running it (and cleaning afterwards) instead of using the autoreconf
debhelper plugin (that is instead commented out), and manually calling
./configure instead of just using `dh_auto_configure -- -others-options-here`
that would get you multiarch as the other recent bug ask for, etc).
FTR, another thing that makes me wonder is the usage of the git
repositories you do: just importing the .dsc into it, instead of working
from it and creating the .dsc out of it (doing so I'd expect smaller
commits, with senseful commit message, etc, etc...).
-- 
regards,
                        Mattia Rizzolo

GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18  4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540      .''`.
more about me:  https://mapreri.org                             : :'  :
Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri                  `. `'`
Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia  `-
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 819 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-science-maintainers/attachments/20160420/f3747133/attachment.sig>