Bug#652598: aboot FTBFS in unstable

2012-01-21 Thread peter green
Jonathan Nieder wrote: So what are the possible means of getting around the problem? Me providing a login to an Alpha with an up-to-date unstable chroot? A sponsored upload of aboot? Does that require at least a DM to prepare the package? Could you become a DD? I'm confident in your

Bug#652598: aboot FTBFS in unstable

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Cree
Looks like the cause is that isolib.h #include-s asm/stat.h from linux-libc-dev which conflicts in namespace with sys/stat from glibc. So in the spirit of aboot (1.0~pre20040408-2) unstable; urgency=low * Include userspace headers from lib/isolib.c instead of kernel

Bug#652598: aboot FTBFS in unstable

2012-01-20 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Michael Cree mc...@orcon.net.nz wrote: Looks like the cause is that isolib.h #include-s asm/stat.h from linux-libc-dev which conflicts in namespace with sys/stat from glibc. So in the spirit of       aboot (1.0~pre20040408-2) unstable; urgency=low         *

Bug#652598: aboot FTBFS in unstable

2012-01-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:24:49PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: For the purposes of this RC bug I guess I should try the patch on aboot, build it on a PC and see if that is capable of making a working boot disc for an Alpha. It may be a few days before I can do that. Note that the source package

Bug#652598: aboot FTBFS in unstable

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Cree
On 21/01/12 08:47, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:24:49PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: For the purposes of this RC bug I guess I should try the patch on aboot, build it on a PC and see if that is capable of making a working boot disc for an Alpha. It may be a few days before I

Bug#652598: aboot FTBFS in unstable

2012-01-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Michael Cree wrote: And that's a fundamental problem. None of us Alpha porters working on the Alpha port at Debian-Ports are DDs, nevertheless we have over 95% of the unstable distribution built, and would like to start work on getting aboot fixed and updated. So what are the possible

Bug#652598: aboot FTBFS in unstable

2012-01-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 652598 src:aboot 1.0~pre20040408-3 tags 652598 + upstream patch quit Hi, peter green wrote: package: aboot severity: serious Aboot FTBFS with the following error Yep, I can reproduce this; thanks for filing it. Just some quick tips for the future: 1. Please use Source: aboot,

Bug#652598: aboot FTBFS in unstable

2012-01-19 Thread peter green
tags 652598 +wheezy sid thanks 1. Please use Source: aboot, not Package: aboot. I'll start doing that if and when the official rc bugs list introduces sane handling of such bugs. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650999 Until then IMO having the bug actually visible to

Bug#652598: aboot FTBFS in unstable

2011-12-18 Thread peter green
package: aboot severity: serious Aboot FTBFS with the following error make[1]: Entering directory `/aboot-1.0~pre20040408/tools' gcc -g -O2 -Wall -I. -I../include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -c -o isomarkboot.o isomarkboot.c In