[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Bug#815441: mpd: FTBFS on hurd-i386: B-D libsmbclient-dev no longer available

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2016-02-23 23:35, Florian Schlichting wrote:
> ok, I'm building mpd withouth smb support on hurd-i386 in the upcoming
> 0.19.13-1 upload; but can you comment on the long-term perspective of
> samba on hurd, is this a workaround that I should remove at some point
> in time, and is there a trigger (like a bug to watch) so I'll know when
> that time has come?

I have no clue about samba, I was just doing QA to reduce the amount of
outdated binary packages in sid.

OK, you made me curious.
That last attempted (and successful) build on hurd-i386 was 2:3.6.19-1
in September 2013. (Today we have 2:4.3.3+dfsg-2).
Thereafter some chain of (mandatory) Build-Depends (introduced for a new
upstream version ?) has not been available. And as a consequence the
outdated samba binaries were removed at some point (Aug 2014, #749134,
"ANAIS; No longer building on Hurd, which does not support byte range
locking").
Looks like "won't be fixed soon".

Andreas