Bug#757585: smpeg: FTBFS on arm64 (autoconf outdated)

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2014-08-09 16:13 GMT+01:00 Wookey <wookey at wookware.org>:
> Package: smpeg
> Version: 0.4.5+cvs20030824-5
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> User: debian-arm at lists.debian.org
> Usertag: arm64
>
>
> This package does not build on the new arm64 architecture (which has
> just been added to the main archive). This is because it's autoconf
> config.sub/guess files are too old.
>
> This package is one of hundreds which need autoconf updates in order
> to build on new architectures such as arm64, mips64el, ppc64el and
> or1k. Reasons why reautoconfing is the recommended was to deal with
> the general case of this problem, as well as details for maintainers
> are covered in https://wiki.debian.org/Autoreconf
>
> As you can see, a plain reautoconf works fine on this package so long
> as the flavour is given as 'foreign' (meaning that it is not a GNU
> project and thus does not have to have a NEWS file, etc), and is a
> clean and simple patch, so I've prepared an NMU and uploaded it to
> DELAYED/7. Please feel free to tell me if I should delay it longer.
>
> This package blocks approx 200 builds (see
> https://people.debian.org/~wookey/bootstrap/blockerlist) so I would
> like to upload it faster than 7 days if that's OK with you?
>
> Wookey

Thanks for bringing this into attention, I compiled it by hand early
on so it's working on or1k and I forgot about the problem.

In fact, I can upload myself with the changes that you suggest and
perhaps a couple more.  The NMU will be cancelled if my revision is
higher, right?


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>