Bug#1020218: vcmi: luajit got removed on ppc64el, please either drop vcmi on ppc64el or switch to lua

[Simon McVittie]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2022 at 11:00:13 +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
> Quoting Paul Gevers (2022-09-18 11:44:07)
> > vcmi build depends on libluajit-5.1-dev but that got removed on
> > ppc64el because it doesn't work correcty on that architecture and
> > noone volunteers to fix *and maintain* it on that architecture. See
> > bug #1014853.
> > 
> > Please investigate if you can just use liblua or if your package needs
> > to be removed on ppc64el.
> 
> I thought according to the recent threat on d-devel [1] packages that FTBFS on
> some arches should rather just let it FTBFS instead of maintaining a list of
> architectures the package can be built on?

Yes ish, but if the package has *become* unbuildable, but was previously
buildable (in older versions or with older versions of dependencies)
and was already successfully built, then the old ppc64el binaries will
need removing in order to have the package able to migrate to testing
(with a consistent version across all architectures where it exists).

    smcv