Contrib packages that probably should be forced into testing

[Arnaud Vandyck]

Wed, 5 Jan 2005 01:20:37 -0800, 
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote: 

> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:48:02AM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
>> Wed, 5 Jan 2005 02:02:29 +0100, 
>> Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> wrote: 
>
>> >      * charva (- to 1.0.1-3)
>> >           + Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers
>> >           + Section: contrib/libs
>> >           + 342 days old (needed 10 days)
>> >           + libcharva1-java/i386 unsatisfiable Depends: libcharva1-jni
>> > NOTE: don't understand the above dependency issue... 
>> >           + Valid candidate
>
>> charva has some part written in java (arch: all) and some in C. I think
>> I built it with my powerpc.
>
> The testing scripts only check the installability of arch: all packages on
> one of our architectures -- for obvious reasons, that architecture is i386.
> libcharva1-java seems to be a rara avis, an arch: all package that's not
> installable on i386.  But it could be: I would suggest getting someone to do
> a binary upload of libcharva1-jni on i386.  In general, I think getting
> contrib builds of JNI packages for both i386 and powerpc would be a good
> idea.

I don't know if free tools can do it easily. Anyway, I've just try to
build it on x86 and it FTBFS :( 

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