On 1/31/20 2:19 AM, jhcha54008 wrote: > May I ask if there is a git repository (in salsa ?) following the > debian variation of aboot ? (and including the history as a bonus ?)
I have not created such a repository yet. I have to ask Steve whether he's got one for his packaging. > 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 ? Yes, I'm aware of that. I have already verified that myself yesterday. In the long-term, it would make more sense though to convert the SGML files to XML. > In a farther future, do we want to keep a source in Docbook SGML ? No. > 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). I don't think we necessarily have to cross-compile everything, but I haven't decided yet. Please note that we addressed a very similar issue in src:palo and solved it by cross-compiling. > 3/ And #832491 about the build dep 'sp' removed, with two patches included. What patches? For "sp", we can also just use "docbook2man" from docbook-utils, I already verified that. > And a ':native' annotation added to the build dep opensp is required as > well in order to cross-build (or solve #854518). I don't want to use opensp but just docbook-utils only. See this issue on github [1]. Adrian > [1] https://github.com/mattst88/aboot/issues/1 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
