[Pkg-octave-devel] Migrating octave-lftat into testing before the freeze

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at laboissiere.net
Fri Oct 31 22:41:45 UTC 2014


* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2014-10-31 22:48]:

> Le mercredi 29 octobre 2014 à 20:26 +0100, Sébastien Villemot a écrit :
>> Le mercredi 29 octobre 2014 à 19:47 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
>>> Package octave-ltfat is prevented from entering testing because of build
>>> failures on amrhf and mips.  I filed Bug#765545 against ftp.debian.org
>>> requesting the removal of the arch binaries, but the ftp-masters did not
>>> act on it yet.  Is there anything we can do in order to ensure that the
>>> new version of octave-ltfat will be in testing before the freeze?
>>
>> I think your only option is to ping the ftpmasters.
>
> I answered too quickly. There are actually two other options.
>
> The first one is to request give backs. It seems that it's what you have 
> done (or someone else) for armhf, since the package is currently 
> building there again.
>
> The other option that I'm pursuing is to build the package on the armhf 
> and mips porterboxes. I got it built on armhf (and will upload it if the 
> give back fails there). On mips it's been building for two days, and 
> apparently it went beyond the point were it failed on the buildd. 
> Unfortunately the porterbox is going to reboot in about 10h (I guess 
> because of a security update), so I'm not sure it will work.
>
> Stay tuned.

Great, thanks.

Rafael



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