Ouch.  Okay, I'll delete that from incoming and will fix it.

Sorry, the problem with NMUs is that we aren't familiar about
every detail of the package.  I missed the copy of another
binary, which I was under the impression was built.

I'll get a fixed version probably Monday evening.
Thanks for your time.  It's not waisted on me.

Peter

Matt Porter wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 12:39:17PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > [I don't subscribe to this list.  Please CC replies to me.]
> > 
> > I just uploaded libforms0.89_0.89-2 to master's incoming.
> > It's supposed to build on powerpc (it's the only non-i386 we
> > currently have the non-source library for).
> > 
> > Would someone mind downloading the source, trying it out (it's a
> > drop-in replacement for libforms0.88), perhaps even try
> > recompiling some simple XForms app with it (xcolmix for example),
> > and uploading a binary powerpc package?
> 
> The source package has a couple of problems that I see already: 
> 
> 1) debian/control needs to have architecture=any instead of i386
> 
> 2) The libforms-bin rule copies binaries from DESIGN which are only
>    i386.  The DESIGN directory really should be laid out like the
>    FORMS directory with arch-specific subdirs.  Another option would
>    be to not provide libforms-bin is we can't have powerpc binaries
>    of those tools but this is undesirable and should be fixed in the
>    upstream package.
> 
> --
> Matt Porter
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