PDL maintenance in Debian Science VCS (was: pdl: FTBFS on mips, powerpc, s390x, sparc, (ia64): testsuite failures)

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:03:28AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

> BTW, since the build error says:
> 
> dpkg --build $(pwd)/debian/tmp ..
> dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `/build/buildd/pdl-2.2.1/debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control' near line 6 package `pdl':
>  `Depends' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name expected
> make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2
> 
> I wonder how this should be caused by a architecture dependant problem
> with type sizes.

You seem to be looking at the oldest mips build log available
rather than the newest. It's from the year 2001.

 https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=pdl&arch=mips&ver=1%3A2.2.1-7&stamp=1002925196

Hope this helps,
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org