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

[Teus Benschop]

Hello Roberto,

I have updated the list of packages in debian/control, to match the list
you had given.

The updated code has been pushed to
scm.alioth.debian.org/git/pkg-crosswire/bibletime.git.
It was not yet tagged.

With regard to what you said:
"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. ...
That is probably something to ask on debian-devel before moving forward."

What I did was the following:
1. Thinking about what to ask on debian-devel.
2. Expecting them to say "Google first, before asking us" :)
3. Googling on the matter.
4. Looking at
https://sources.debian.org/src/qtwebengine-opensource-src/5.9.2+dfsg-3/debian/control/
5. Copying the way they did it there:
Package: libqt5webengine-data
Architecture: all
Multi-Arch: foreign
6. Considering that if this is good for the qtwebengine data, it will also
be good for the BibleTime data.

May I ask for a review of the package and a sponsored upload.
May you also grant me the privileges to upload the bibletime package myself.

Thanks!

Teus.



On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 at 08:36 Teus Benschop <teusjannette at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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