[pkg-crosswire-devel] Bug#912834: xiphos: missing build on ppc64el: suggestion to remove it there

[Teus Benschop]

Source: xiphos
Version: 4.0.7.1-4
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)

Dear Maintainers,

The package xiphos currently does not build on architecture ppc64el.

There is a patch for it, and this patch is in libsword.
But this libsword is not going into auto-transition mode soon.

In the mean time package xiphos as is now in testing is not linked to the correct libsword version.
So it won't run on testing right now.
And this was due to me not following the proper route of the transition.

A new build of xiphos was made.
That new build links to the correct libsword.
So Xiphos works with that new build.

But now a missing build on ppc64el will prevent this correctly working xiphos package
from being migrated to testing.

See this link:
https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=xiphos

My suggestion is to now request removal of xiphos version 4.0.7.1-4
from architecture ppc64el.
So the remaining xiphos binaries will migrate to testing soon.

Is there a problem with this approach?

If there's no problem with this, I intend to move on with this.

This bug is actually to keep track of this issue.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled