Bug#669308: Bug#669059: webkit-1.8.0-2: FTBFS on hurd-*

[Svante Signell]

Adding: Debian Webkit Maintainers to this mail.
On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 23:14 +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> [I took #669059 out of CC to not clutter the open bug]
> 
> On 27/04/12 22:33, Svante Signell wrote:
> > This is incredible: The Debian maintainer uploads a fixed version for
> > kFreeBSD (and partially for GNU/Hurd by adding __GLIBC__) and meanwhile
> > totally neglecting the additional small changes needed for a successful
> > build for GNU/Hurd in this bug report and in bug #664810. I wonder which
> > agendas they have, only architectures already in testing, and ignoring
> > everything else? 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It is a shame, but I doubt the maintainer is ignoring GNU/Hurd on purpose.
> 
> #669308 simply had higher severity in the BTS, and held up testing
> migration for everyone, because GNU/kFreeBSD is fortunate enough to be
> classed as a 'release architecture' already.
> 
> The patch for #669059 then would have conflicted with mine and I'm sorry
> for that.  And the maintainer maybe didn't have time to merge/include it
> yet for this upload.
> 
> The situation is awkward for GNU/Hurd because fixing things like webkit
> (with lots of dependencies waiting on it) is important towards becoming
> a release architecture too.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Steven Chamberlain
> steven at pyro.eu.org

Steven, thanks for you reply. GNU/Hurd is currently struggling to
getting into testing too, so when things like this happens, they are
_very_ unfortunate.