[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#730271: gnupg: Future FTBFS: gnupg attempts to build mpi on Windows and fails

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 00:25, skitt at debian.org said:

> The toolchain in Debian stable hasn't changed so there shouldn't be any
> trouble there.

As it happens, I am sometimes ahead of stable ;-).  Not always, though.

Thanks for the long explanation.  I have pushed the fix to 1.4 branch.

> Would it be helpful at all if I got the gnupg tests running on Windows
> targets? I believe that may be more fruitful in the long run than debating
> the merits of various packaging approaches... In particular it would

You mean the regression test suite?  That is Unix only; thus running it
on Windows would require some tweaking with Wine or remote execution on
Windows (but we have no free ssh server for Windows).


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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