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Bug#1001657: Ball fails its autopkgtest - how to properly deal with sip files?

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Hi all,

Nilesh Patra, on 2021-12-16:
> On 12/16/21 1:24 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Am Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 11:23:17PM +0100 schrieb Étienne Mollier:
> > > 
> > > I pushed my changes leading to these errors, but getting the
> > > other bugs affecting ball fixed before Christmas might involve
> > > undoing the setting of SIP_LIBRARIES in d/rules.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for your investigations.  I do not think we have a real
> > time limit for ball - but this is a good time to do some polishing in
> > BTW and if we delay the solution it might become forgotten again.
> > That's why I'm asking whether the effort to solve the issue is worth
> > doing compared to simply droping the Python3 package which I consider a
> > valid solution of the problem.
> 
> Only my opinion:
> 
> Just do this, IMO i.e. drop package. I don't think it is worth spending so much
> time to fix this when we have no real users.
> There is a "possibility" that the popcon score (2) would have come from our us installing it in
> own machines only for testing purposes.
> Upstream is dead as well, so this gives me several green flags to
> proceed with a removal.

I think I agree.  Besides, the package is also heavy to build,
and getting the bindings to work can easily become a time sink.

Kind Regards,
-- 
Étienne Mollier <emollier@emlwks999.eu>
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Sent from /dev/tty1, please excuse my verbosity.

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Bug#1001657: ball: binary-any FTBFS Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-12-13 20:50 +0100
  Processed: Re: Ball fails its autopkgtest - how to properly deal  with sip files? "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2021-12-14 22:00 +0100
  Bug#1001657: Ball fails its autopkgtest - how to properly deal with sip files? Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2021-12-14 22:00 +0100
    Bug#1001657: Ball fails its autopkgtest - how to properly deal with sip files? Étienne Mollier <emollier@emlwks999.eu> - 2021-12-14 23:00 +0100
  Processed: Re: Ball fails its autopkgtest - how to properly deal  with sip files? "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2021-12-14 23:00 +0100
  Bug#1001657: Ball fails its autopkgtest - how to properly deal with sip files? Andreas Tille <andreas@fam-tille.de> - 2021-12-15 10:10 +0100
  Bug#1001657: Ball fails its autopkgtest - how to properly deal with sip files? Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> - 2021-12-16 09:00 +0100
  Bug#1001657: Ball fails its autopkgtest - how to properly deal with sip files? Étienne Mollier <emollier@emlwks999.eu> - 2021-12-16 21:50 +0100
  Bug#1001657: marked as done (ball: binary-any FTBFS) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2021-12-18 21:40 +0100

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