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

[Stephen Kitt]

Hi josch,

Le 19/09/2022 11:00, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues a écrit :
> 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?
> 
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/20220911150857.xedt2an2vye3qrc7@begin

I don’t think Paul was necessarily asking to remove ppc64el from the 
list of architectures in debian/control, but rather asking to remove the 
ppc64el binary package if we can’t get it working with liblua.

The best course of action IMO is to file a RM bug for vcmi on ppc64el so 
that the package can migrate to testing, and then if someone fixes the 
Lua situation (either on pcc64el globally, or by switching vcmi to 
liblua) the package will become available on ppc64el again.

Regards,

Stephen