[Pkg-crosswire-devel] BibleTime not moving to testing

[Teus Benschop]

Thank you for the information, Roberto, that is something I will try.
It does not give me a happy feeling to reduce the number of architectures
that BibleTime runs on. But I realize, now, that this is something beyond
our control. It's upstream's choice to use a dependency not available on
all architectures.

On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 at 15:22 Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto at debian.org> wrote:

> That page says that there is no bibletime build for armel, mips,
> mips64el, ppc64el, and s390x. The reason there is no build on those
> architectures is because one of the build dependencies
> (qtwebengine5-dev) cannot be installed on those archictures.
>
> Looking at the debian/control file for qtwebengine-opensource-src (the
> source package), this is how qtwebengine5-dev is declared:
>
> Package: qtwebengine5-dev
> Architecture: amd64 arm64 armhf i386 mipsel
>
> So, the solution would be to update bibletime so that instead of
> "Architecture: any", it matches the architecture list of
> qtwebengine5-dev.
>
> That said, bibletime-data is "Architecture: all" and I am not sure if
> changing the list of valid architectures for bibletime should result in
> a change to bibletime-data. Otherwise you might end up with
> bibletime-data on architectures for which bibletime itself is not
> available.  That is, unless the archive software does not include
> "Architecture: all" packages in architectures for which no binary
> packages are produced from a given source package.
>
> That is probably something to ask on debian-devel before moving forward.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 01:49:49PM +0000, Teus Benschop wrote:
> >    The package "bibletime" is not moving from sid to testing.
> >    It has excuses for not moving there.
> >    [1]https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=bibletime
> >    I am not sure about how to go about this? What is the best approach
> to fix
> >    the excuses, or to work around the excuses? The goal is to move the
> >    "bibletime" package to testing.
> >
> > References
> >
> >    Visible links
> >    1. https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=bibletime
>
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