[Debian-ppc64-devel] Etch on ppc64

[Vincent Deffontaines]

Greetings,

I am wondering about the state of etch on the ppc64 architecture.
http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/ used to mention "An inofficial 
release of Debian 'etch' for ppc64 is planned. It will be available from 
the debian-ppc64 archive as soon as the official Debian 'etch' is released."

Now that etch is out, that sentence has disapeared from the given URL ;)

The "stable" repository at http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/ seems 
a bit "tainted" with testing packages (which is fine with me), but this 
seems to raise deep dependency problems.

A very concrete example that I am having : I need to install nufw, 
nuauth, nuauth-log-mysql in version 2.0.
Those packages are not part of etch, though nuauth 2.0.16 (from testing) 
is raised (in place of 1.0.23, as in etch) when i apt-get install it.

That's just fine with me as is, but the "nuauth-log-mysql" package is 
only available in version 1.0.23. This of course raises a major 
dependency/compatibility problem.

I then tried to generate debian packages for nufw 2.0 from sources.
I am having dependency problems with libgnutls-dev (won't install) as 
well as other packages :

Very specifically for libgnutls-dev, I have :
libgnutls-dev: Depends: libgcrypt11-dev (>= 1.2.2) but it is not going 
to be installed

libgcrypt11-dev: Depends: libgpg-error-dev but it is not going to be 
installed

libgpg-error-dev: Depends: libgpg-error0 (= 1.4-1) but 1.4-2 is to be 
installed

Can anyone point me to either :
- a repository more "consistant" than "deb 
http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org stable main"
- or simply a method to solve my dependencies/consistency problems.

I have a side question : the build log 
(http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/buildd-logs/) mentions that 
nuauth-log-mysql build went fine on ppc64. Though the package is not 
available in the repository, while nuauth itself (built from the same 
sources package) is available. Why is that? Can anyone maybe push the 
other 2.0.16 packages into the repository, for the sake of consistency?

I am perfectly aware the etch version of ppc64 is inofficial, just 
trying to get things done nicely here :)

Thanks,

Vincent

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