Bug#589689: transition to libjack-jackd2-0 breaks many packages

[Felipe Sateler]

On 03/08/10 00:26, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 19:23:59 (EDT), Felipe Sateler wrote:
> 
>> On 02/08/10 18:26, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
>>> On Sun, August 1, 2010 12:33, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>>> Copying this to the appropriate bug...
>>> [...]
>>>> Indeed. How do you suggest working through this? Facts:
>>>>
>>>> 1. The build hangs unpredictably on a doxygen call.
>>>> 2. The doxygen call is in build-indep (so it is not strictly necessary
>>>> for binary only builds, but gets executed anyway).
>>>>
>>>> I can move the doxygen call away from there into binary-indep, but that
>>>> feels like a hack to me.
>>>
>>> Does the documentation actually differ across architectures?
>>
>> No, it doesn't.
>>
>>>  If the
>>> doxygen calls are simply for generating the contents of libcsound64-doc
>>> then arranging for them to only occur when the binary-indep packages are
>>> being built sounds like a sane solution; if I'm missing something obvious,
>>> then someone please apply the relevant cluebat. :-)
>>
>> Well, it feels hacky to build stuff in the binary stage. Also, it seems
>> to me that what we are doing is re-hiding a bug that is somewhere else.
>>
>>
>> If we really want to do that, please tell me and I'll prepare a new
>> upload with that.
> 
> AFAIUI from discussions with other DDs here, this is a long standing and
> known bug that is not going to be fixed soon. I therefore think we
> should do that change with a comment so that we can undo it when
> dpkg-buildpackage gets fixed.

The bug that we are re-hiding would be the doxygen crash on hppa, not
the brain-damaged dpkg-buildpackage behaviour.


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler