Hi Adrian, Nice that someone knowledgeable stepped in to salvage aboot. Thanks in advance !
May I ask if there is a git repository (in salsa ?) following the debian variation of aboot ? (and including the history as a bonus ?) Three RC bugs are listed for src:aboot, with at least partial solutions for two of them. 1/ This last one is #949711 about the build-dep 'sgmltool-lite' soon removed from the archive. 'sgmltools' from package 'sgmltool-lite' is run at line 7 of file doc/faq/Makefile (only ocurrence as far as I can see) sgmltools --backend=html SRM-HOWTO.sgml The package 'docbook-utils' is a build dependency of aboot yet and includes docbook2html. $ docbook2html SRM-HOWTO.sgml succeeded for me (at least on amd64 running stretch). Does it make sense to patch the source of aboot accordingly ? In a farther future, do we want to keep a source in Docbook SGML ? 2/ The current maintainer mentioned [1] that aboot needs to produce an arch:all package (aboot-base) on arch:alpha. See bug #805988 (and #821332). However, it should be possible to cross-build aboot, as suggesteed by the current maintainer [2] (at that time, I managed to cross-build aboot on amd64 and I booted successfully a real AlphaWorkstation 500 with it : see [3] and the followings. I haven't tested with current sid since). However, the patches should be cleaned and I never managed to find the time (sorry). 3/ And #832491 about the build dep 'sp' removed, with two patches included. And a ':native' annotation added to the build dep opensp is required as well in order to cross-build (or solve #854518). Sorry that I have no time currently to test myself. I hope it will help nevertheless ! Regards, JH Chatenet [1] : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi.bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949711#10 [2] : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi.bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=805988#58 [3] : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi.bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=805988#78