gnu-smalltalk amd64 missing

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Wednesday 16,February,2011 07:00 PM, Roland Plüss wrote:
> Since nearly over a year now the gnu-smalltalk is broken on Ubuntu (since
> maverick to be precise) on my amd64 developer machine. Since this time I have
> now to dual-boot with a GenToo to develop with GST since Ubuntu only has the
> i368 version but not the amd64 version.
> 
> Why exactly is there no amd64 version since over a year whereas GenToo has an
> amd64 version and it works splendid? Is it because of this one test case which
> fails in the build logs?
> 
>>  111: DBD-MySQL                                       skipped (testsuite.at:149)
>>  116: GDBM                                            FAILED (testsuite.at:154)
>>
>>  ERROR: 125 tests were run,
>>  1 failed unexpectedly.
>>  1 test was skipped.
> 
> A skipped test is nothing special and GDBM failing the test by itself also
> nothing special (it's under "other package"). Is it not possible to do something
> about this? It's quite a nuisance to dual-boot just because an amd64 version is
> refused to be done.
> 
> (if you answer on this mail, please also CC roland at rptd.ch as I can't register
> on this mailing list for some reason)
> 

Sorry about that. It's not that the amd64 version is refused to be done, but
more like nobody who used the package stepped forward to fix it (just a
no-change re-upload, since the tests all pass now anyway).

There's a bug on this[1], and I've just uploaded an unchanged package to the
maverick-proposed queue. Please subscribe yourself to that bug, and when the
package gets approved for the -proposed queue (and subsequently get copied into
natty), please verify that it works fine on Maverick so that users may get it
via maverick-updates.

Thanks for the notifying us about this.


[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnu-smalltalk/+bug/712296

-- 
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

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