[Soc-coordination] Gustavo Alkmim - Report 6 - Improve Debian port on mipsel

[Gustavo Alkmim]

Hello,

I'm working on the project "Improve one of the Debian MIPS ports" [0]. In
few words, the objective of this project is to fix broken packages of
Debian port on mipsel, so that the quality of debian in these architectures
can be improved.

An online repository with all the relevant files of the project can be
found here [1].

This week I had some personal questions and a meeting with my advisor,
which avoid me to make a good progress this week. I made some builds, but
could not spend too much time solving the problems. Sorry about that.

Below is a summary of the current status of each bug:

   - Bug #788680 [2] for package openni version 1.5.4.0-12: I sent the
   patch for the bug on  thread, on message [3]. Patch is available in [4]. I
   did not receive an answer yet. I will ask the maintainers about that.


   - Opened bug #789881 [5] for package z3 version 4.4.0-1. During the
   dh_auto_build, the header emmintrin.h is not being find. Building it
   without using debian sources worked fine. Probably it is something with the
   dh_override_auto_configure rule. I'm still investigating the problem.


   - Opened bug #790327 [6] for package openturns version 1.5-7. The
   package is not being built due to a restriction on debian/rules that
   packages with 1GB should not built on mips/mipsel. I tried to build it
   without this restrictions and it got killed (probably due to lack of
   memory). I'm tryed to build with a swap file and It got killed again. I
   will investigate about this restriction on mips/mipsel devices. Dejan
   Latinovic sent me an email with some suggestions about how to approach
   this bug.


According to the original schedule [0] this week was to focus on fixing
bugs. So, we are up-to-date with the schedule.

Next week:
   - Keep working on bugs #788680, #789881 and #790327.
   - Open new bugs for still broken packages.

Cheers,

Gustavo Alkmim

[0]
https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2015/StudentApplications/GustavoAlkmim
[1]   http://www.alkmim.eti.br:3000/~alkmim/debian/gsoc2015
[2]   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788680
[3]   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788680#22
[4]
http://www.alkmim.eti.br:3000/~alkmim/debian/gsoc2015/Bugs/%23788680-openni-1.5.4.0/openni-1.5.4.0v2.patch
[5]   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=789881
[6]   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=789527
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