kde packages and hurd

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Hi Samuel!

Explicitly CCing Aurélien who is the c-e-m maintainer.

On Sun, 4 Sept 2022 at 17:18, Samuel Thibault
<samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> KDE packages used to build fine on the Hurd port.
>
> Since recently, we have started seeing this build error:
>
> “
>   Your current platform 'GNU' is not supported.  The list of supported
>   platorms is 'Linux;FreeBSD;Windows;macOS;Android'.If you think this is a
>   mistake or you are working on enabling the platform please build with the
>   KF_IGNORE_PLATFORM_CHECK variable set to true
> ”
>
> We have tried to make kde add the Hurd in the list of supported
> platforms, but they'd only do it if there is active support with CI
> setup etc., see:
>
> https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/extra-cmake-modules/-/merge_requests/294
>
> I wonder what debian KDE maintainers' position is: would it be fine
> to just make debian/rules with KF_IGNORE_PLATFORM_CHECK set for some
> platforms? Or add the platform in extra-cmake-modules and add the
> supported platform as a patch in the packages?

Well, Hurd is a non-official arch, so I guess a patch in
extra-cmake-modules could be added and you will have to deal with
FTBFSs, etc. Is that suitable for you?