Bug#901577: vlc: Please add support for architecture "riscv64"

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: forwarded -1 https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/20683

2018-06-15 11:46 GMT+02:00 Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher at debian.org>:
>>
>> I can build successfully just applying the attached minimal patch to
>> debian/rules, which should also work fine for all arches, but maybe it would be
>> better to apply only to riscv64.
>
> … but does it acutally work?

Yep, works fine :)


>> It would probably be better to solve this upstream, I don't know if you
>> can/prefer contact them or you prefer that we do it.  Also not sure how likely
>> are they to fix the issue and how long it will take.
>
> I think it would be better if you'd report the issue upstream at
> https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ so that it gets solved properly. For questions
> about riscv64 I'd have to forward anything to you anyway.

Done, and set forwarded above.


>> So we'll appreciate if you fix it in some way in Debian while it's not fixed
>> upstream, otherwise a big part of the archive is blocked by this package, and we
>> have to keep applying the patch, building the package and uploading to a special
>> archive for this port with every upload or binNMU to src:vlc.
>
> I can add the -pthread (for riscv64 only) in the next upload. But please,
> please, please get it fixed upstream. I don't want to carry those kind of
> workarounds around forever.

Will try to get them fixed ASAP, yes :-)