Bug#1016430: netgen: New upstream version 6.2.2007 available / why is the version overriden with +really?

Drew Parsons dparsons at debian.org
Tue Nov 14 09:30:17 GMT 2023


On 2023-11-13 22:31, Kurt Kremitzki wrote:
> Hello Drew,
...
>> Debian builds were only succeeding on amd64 but failing on all the
>> other architectures: i386, armel, armhf, arm64, mipsel, mips64el,
>> ppc64el, and s390x.
> 
>> I was able to fix some of the problems by switching to an older
>> version (thus the version 6.2.2006+really6.2.1905)


Thanks for the explanation, Kurt.

Looks like upstream put a lot a work into netgen portability since 2006. 
It's now building on all arches with only minor patching.

Once debci tests are passing from experimental we can push the new 
version to unstable.

Drew



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