Please sponsor snoopy (Re: snoopy: FTBFS)
Hugo Lefeuvre
hle at debian.org
Sun Oct 29 10:55:32 UTC 2017
Hi Lukas,
I have just uploaded the changes from git.
> > Also, is it really necessary to change from any to linux-any ? No
> > patch possibilities ? I don't know the codebase, but IMO this kind of
> > solutions should be considered as a last resort.
>
> I agree. In this case, upstream only supports Linux and heavily uses
> Linux-only functionality, e.g. functions like gettid [2], parsing
> information from /proc and more. So I don't see another option.
Right, then linux-any seems to be appropriated.
> > Otherwise the diff is fine, I can sponsor the package once you've
> > fixed the broken tests issue.
>
> I think the best way to proceed with this bug is to wait for a few weeks
> and hope upstream comments on the issue. Though I'm not too hopeful
> since the GCC-7 FTBFS issue [3] hasn't seen any activity either. I will
> file a bug in our BTS about that tomorrow so we don't forget to track
> this.
Fine. If you are sufficiently confident with your patch then you could
also think of integrating it in the Debian package anyway.
Thanks !
Cheers,
Hugo
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