Bug#701710: libav: FTBFS on powerpcspe

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Roland Stigge <stigge at antcom.de> wrote:
> On 26/02/13 19:32, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> TBH, I do not feel comfortable with maintaining this patch outside of
>> libav, escp. since upstream already does take care about unusual
>> environments. The libav packaging is already complicated enough.
>> Therefore, I would like to ask you to reconsider your decision to
>> implement this with configure switches instead of implementing the
>> logic in the configuration script.
>
> I'm not quite sure what you mean by this since the only patch I proposed
> is to the Debian files which currently already disable altivec on
> powerpc - and the patch adds the same for powerpcspe.

Well, the difference is who has to maintain that change. I am not
willing to maintain handling powerpcspe in debian/rules because this
is something that they upstream configure script is in a much better
position to handle.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard