Bug#728573: supercollider: FTBFS on sparc and ppc but built there in the past

[Dan S]

2013/11/6 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks. As discussed previously on pkg-multimedia-maintainers, I
>> propose that we restrict archs for one package
>> "supercollider-supernova". The package is optional for users (it's a
>> non-default drop-in alternative to "supercollider-server") and there
>> is very little upstream support for getting it working across archs.
>> It uses some fancy coding and boost libs that I'm not familiar with,
>> and these are what incur these build fails. I know it would be great
>> to avoid having to special-case any archs, but I don't see where the
>> expertise will come from to do this, and supercollider is
>> fully-functional without that package.
>
> I thought sc used the problematic boost libs elsewhere so this was not
> really a workable solution...

Hi all - just tested this on sparc/ppc porterboxes and the proposed
fix works. I've pushed the fix to git.debian.org - please could I
request a new upload, so that it's possible for the supercollider
packages to go eventually to testing?

Dan