[helix-maintainers] Bug#330337: helix-player: FTBFS on most architectures

[Daniel Baumann]

Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> The helix-player source package suffers from several small portability
> bugs (most upstream's fault, I believe) that keep it from building
> properly on most Debian architectures.

Jep, only amd64, sparc, i386 and powerpc are supported (more or less).

> BTW, you really ought to fix debian/rules clean to work from source
> trees that *aren't* already pristine, per Policy 4.8.  As it is, a lot
> of generated files are getting left behind; at best, this would bloat
> the diff, but as it is, overwriting the top-level Makefile keeps
> 02_makefile.dpatch from being reversed, and the fact that many of
> these files are binaries makes dpkg-source choke.  You may want to go
> in for a setup where you copy the whole non-debian/ tree (or extract
> it from a tarball) into a sandbox that the clean target can then
> safely blow away in its entirety.

I'm currently playing with that for 1.0.5-2, should be ready for the
weekend.

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