Re: New Debian packaging effort

[Ben Pfaff]

[trying again without quoting 900 kB]

The packaging looks pretty good to me.  I added some comments in
review.  I'll sponsor you, if you will fix the (fairly small)
issues that I pointed out.

Thanks,

Ben.

bojo42 <address@hidden> writes:

> I've just uploaded the revamped package to mentors:
>
> http://mentors.debian.net/package/pspp
>
> Feedback or sponsoring highly welcome :)
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 12.01.2012, 23:11 +0100 schrieb bojo42:
>> Thanks, the testsuite is now quite pleased beside the 64bit one.
>> 
>> Am Donnerstag, den 12.01.2012, 20:30 +0000 schrieb John Darrington:
>> > I pushed a change to master which should fix this FAILED item.
>> > 
>> > The first skipped on seems to be deliberately skipped on 64bit
>> > systems.
>> > 
>> > For the other two items, you will need to have installed 
>> > libtext-diff-perl and postgresql
>> > 
>> > J'
>> > 
>> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 06:18:13PM +0100, bojo42 wrote:
>> >      I just tried to build for Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) and the upcoming 12.04
>> >      (precise). As precise is quite close to sid it got the same errors, 
>> > but
>> >      the testsuite is sucessful for the lucid build. So the reason for
>> >      failure seems to be somewhere in the newer toolchain and dependencies.
>> >      Maybe this helps a bit further.
>> >      
>> >      Am Donnerstag, den 12.01.2012, 13:17 +0100 schrieb bojo42:
>> >      > Okay i fixed my pbuilder setup and now i can deliver anything from 
>> > the
>> >      > build chroot before it's deleted, see attachment.
>> >      > 
>> >      > @John: You guessed right i missed to depend on perl (also on 
>> > libpq), but
>> >      > having it added now doesn't help with the errors. Debian's perl is 
>> > at
>> >      > 5.14.2.
>> >      > 
>> >      > Am Mittwoch, den 11.01.2012, 10:27 -0800 schrieb Ben Pfaff:
>> >      > > bojo42 <address@hidden> writes:
>> >      > > 
>> >      > > > - What still prevents compilation are some testsuite strikes:
>> >      > > >
>> >      > > >  20: numeric format output    FAILED (data-out.at:47)
>> >      > > >  97: too many value labels    skipped (sys-file-reader.at:2766)
>> >      > > >  183: GET DATA /TYPE=PSQL    skipped (get-data-psql.at:124)
>> >      > > >  914: Perl Pspp.t    skipped (perl-module.at:706)
>> >      > > >
>> >      > > > Could really use some help for the FAILED one. Do you really 
>> > need the
>> >      > > > "testsuite.log" as it's quite tricky to get it out of my 
>> > pbuilder setup.
>> >      > > 
>> >      > > I don't know how to debug a test failure without testsuite.log.
>> >      > > 
>> >      > > You can always add "cat testsuite.log" somewhere in your build
>> >      > > process to ensure that testsuite.log shows up in the build log.

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Ben Pfaff 
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