[Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#746505: Bug#746505: fix FTBFS on new architectures

[Aurelien Jarno]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 08:27:35PM +0000, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Wednesday 30 April 2014, Breno Leitao wrote:
> > Package: lirc
> > Version: 0.9.0~pre1
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: patch
> > User: debian-powerpc at lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: ppc64el
> > User: debian-devel at lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: autoreconf
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Lirc is curretnly failing to build on new architectures, as ppc64el.
> > In order to enable this package to be built on new architectures, autoreconf
> > needs to be called before the package build. In order to do it, I am providing
> > a patch that follows the instructions at
> > https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS#A2014-01-21_using_dh-autoreconf_during_the_build
> 
> Thanks for the patch, I was planning to enable autoreconf (following 
> the recent threads on d-devel) anyways, so this patch is very welcome
> and it will be part of the next lirc upload (which may take 1-2 months 
> to finalize, as there is some renewed upstream activity).

Any news on that? The ppc64el architecture is now in Debian, and this
bug is preventing dozens of packages to be built. An upload asap would
be appreciated. Thanks.

Aurelien

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