Bug#765456: ogre-1.8: FTBFS on arm64

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2014-10-15 10:26 GMT+01:00 Edmund Grimley Evans
<edmund.grimley.evans at gmail.com>:
> Source: ogre-1.8
> Version: 1.8.0+dfsg1-7
>
> It failed to build on arm64:

Thanks for the report and the suggestion.

I patched ogre-1.9 at the time (for arm64, mips64el and ppc64le), and
submitted the patch upstream.  I did not imagine that ogre-1.8 would
survive for so long in unstable, ogre-1.9 has been out for a year now,
and all development and bugfixes in 1.8 were stopped long before that.
By the time that the next Debian stable is released, there would have
been no support from upstream more than a year, so I don't even know
if it's very wise to ship 1.8 in the next stable release.

The packages depending on 1.8 at the moment are:

- leaf packages (funguloids, and ember -- which is obsolete since long
ago, 0.7 has been out for close to two years)

- libogre-perl (I guess that these bindings to develop OGRE from Perl;
which, if it does not target the most recent versions of OGRE, is of
little use)

- cegui, also needing an update for more than a year (a transition to
newer versions has been ignored for a long time: #732763).  cegui
itself is not available neither in arm64 nor in ppc64el (unmet
dependencies), and it also will fail to build from source once the
deps are available (#758528).


So, in summary, I don't think that any of these packages are
particularly important to have in a stable port of a new architecture
like arm64, because all of them are quite outdated and with very few
installations.

So, all in all, I think that it's better to not attempt to fix this
bug, and possibly make it RC (once arm64 is accepted as release
architecture) to try to nudge packages to move to the newer 1.9.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>