On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 5:22 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > Hi Jeremy! > > On 11/14/18 10:52 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > As requested, this is librsvg reintroduced for ports that don't > > supported the rustified librsvg yet. The name is because this is > > librsvg written in the C programming language (instead of in Rust). > > Thanks a lot for your effort and the initiative, I really appreciate > the idea. I also apologize for my harsh wording in the heated the > discussion we had. I'm very glad that this - as it is always the case > in Debian - is leading to a productive solution. Great! > > > Currently, the packaging builds the same binary package names as > > src:librsvg. There was a suggestion to use different binary names with > > versioned Provides (against the existing librsvg binary package > > names). I'm not sure that provides much benefit but we can discuss > > that. > > > > I don't have the ability to do the initial upload for this package > > since I don't have easy access to do the binary build required for > > ftp-master NEW. > > > > I don't have experience with archive management for non-release > > architectures at all. > > The problem that we have is that it's not possible to upload a package > to Debian which does not build any binaries on the release architectures, > the archive would be removed from the archive immediately. > > I assume what we could do is maybe have a package that is built from > multiple sources so that it builds different binary packages for the > Rust and non-Rust targets. > > I have CC'ed James Clarke and Adrian Bunk who might be interested in > this discussion as well and probably can maybe help in the process. > > Again, thanks a lot for the efforts and sorry for my heated and > unprofessional behavior. > > Thanks a lot! > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
Would an arch:all librsvg-c-doc package be sufficient for the "must build a binary package on a release architecture" requirement? Thanks, Jeremy Bicha