Hi Gianfranco,
Is there any way in which I could get access to an armel porter box to try and 
work out what’s causing the failure?

Thanks,
James

> On 24 Jan 2016, at 20:26, James Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I am aware s390x is failing. I have been trying to port it, and it no longer 
> segfaults (thanks to the pexport-endian.diff patch from upstream), but one 
> part of the build step (the compiler bootstrapping itself) exits with code 1, 
> without printing anything. That’s on my list of things to talk to upstream 
> about.
> 
> x32 fails because there’s some hand-written assembly that isn’t aware of x32 
> (it assumes i386 and amd64 are the only two cases).
> 
> Interestingly armel has failed a test case for floating-point (funnily enough 
> I had just that test failed when I was testing ppc64el and it turned out to 
> be a bug in qemu!), so I’ll need to look into that. Previous uploads weren’t 
> running the tests as part of the build, so I don’t know if this is a 
> regression or not. armhf has built successfully though...
> 
> I’m currently a student, so one package is more than enough, although 
> certainly one day I would consider applying to be a Debian Maintainer. Having 
> said that, for a package in debian-science, there’s hardly any inconvenience 
> on my part.
> 
> Regards,
> James
> 
>> On 24 Jan 2016, at 20:10, Gianfranco Costamagna 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Sure, thanks for the kind words for the former maintainers :)
>> 
>> Btw s390x and x32 just failed to build, you might want to poke upstream 
>> about a porting, and ping me about testing patches on porter boxes :)
>> 
>> If you want ti maintain some other packages you might even consider applying 
>> for Debian Contributor or Debian Maintainer, you are doing a good job here, 
>> you might even have direct upload privileges one day for this package :)
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> G.
>> --------------------------------------------
>> Dom 24/1/16, James Clarke <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>> 
>> Oggetto: Re: polyml 5.5.2-4
>> A: "Gianfranco Costamagna" <[email protected]>
>> Cc: "Debian Science Team" 
>> <[email protected]>, "Lionel Elie Mamane" 
>> <[email protected]>, "Achim D. Brucker" <[email protected]>
>> Data: Domenica 24 gennaio 2016, 20:47
>> 
>> Oh right, I wasn’t
>> aware such a thing was the done thing; I was just using
>> xindy (just so happened to see that someone took over
>> maintenance of it on debian-devel) as a reference. Of course
>> it goes without saying that I’m grateful for all the work
>> Lionel and Achim have done on it; I hope nobody thinks
>> otherwise. Without them there would be no Poly/ML package on
>> Debian and its derivatives.
>> 
>> Thanks for continuing to sponsor me!
>> 
>> Regards,
>> James
>> 
>>> 
>> On 24 Jan 2016, at 19:41, Gianfranco Costamagna 
>> <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I uploaded
>> it a few seconds ago, hopefully it will appear before the
>> next dinstall
>>> (due in 12 minutes), and
>> then start building everywhere.
>>> 
>>> BTW nitpick, usually on changelog when a
>> person takes over a package maintenance
>>> 
>> is used to say somthing like
>>> "take
>> over the package maintenance
>>> - thanks
>> Lionel, and Achim for your work!"
>>> 
>> 
>>> and then upload :)
>>> 
>>> anyway, thanks to
>> you both for your work, and James, keep up the nice work!
>>> (as you did in the last three uploads)
>>> 
>>> cheers,
>>> 
>>> Gianfranco
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Il Domenica 24
>> Gennaio 2016 20:38, James Clarke <[email protected]>
>> ha scritto:
>>> Hi Gianfranco (cc’d
>> Lionel and Achim as this upload officially makes me
>> uploader),
>>> Many thanks; I’ll push the
>> changes to debian-science/polyml.git.
>>> 
>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> James
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 24 Jan 2016, at 19:36, Gianfranco
>> Costamagna <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> Signed&Uploading in a few minutes!
>>>> 
>>>> thanks for
>> your contribution to Debian!
>>>> 
>>>> cheers,
>>>> 
>>>> Gianfranco
>>>> 
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Il Domenica 24 Gennaio 2016 14:54,
>> James Clarke <[email protected]>
>> ha scritto:
>>>> Hi Gianfranco,
>>>> 
>>>>> 1) you
>> took over the package maintenance, can I see a post where
>> the current uploaders acked the change?
>>>> 
>>>> Please see
>> the entirety of this thread in debian-science: 
>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2016/01/msg00035.html
>>>> 
>>>>> 2) a
>> patch against testsuite not mentioned in changelog
>>>>> 3) patches against mips* not
>> mentioned in changelog.
>>>>> 
>>>>> basically I would change changelog
>> mentioning the patch name, e.g.
>>>>> 
>> new patches:
>>>>> foo.diff: add
>> support for foo architecture
>>>>> 
>> 
>>>>> and so on.
>>>>> the patches should be good :)
>>>> 
>>>> I have
>> amended the changelog and re-uploaded to mentors; how is it
>> now?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> James
> 

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