Re. subsurface: FTBFS in experimental

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 02:36:45PM +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 02:22:18PM +0200, Guillaume Gardet wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Le 26/08/2015 13:21, Pierre-Yves Chibon a écrit :
> > >>>Well apparently subsurface is now targeted towards Win/Mac[0] (no
> > >>>binaries for Linux)... so the "experience" for FLOSS users will simply
> > >>>be that there is no subsurface anymore.
> > >>No, we have binaries available for Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mint, and, of
> > >>course, Debian. And we have a fully automated build script in the works
> > >>that builds Subsurface on many other distributions that we haven't been
> > >>able to add to our list. There's an ArchLinux AUR based on that. Etc.
> > >You are also building the Fedora and OpenSuse packages on the same system while
> > >if they are both RPM based they do use different macros and have different
> > >guidelines.
> > 
> > Hey, this is not true. Subsurface uses the OBS (Open Build Service) to build packages. OBS runs build jobs inside VMs.
> > So, Fedora 21 packages are built inside a Fedora 21 VM, Fedora 22 in a Fedora 22 VM, openSUSE 13.2 packages are built in openSUSE 13.2 VM, and so on.
> > So, this is not the same system, even for the same distro, it is distribution _AND_ release specific.
> 
> That doesn't contradict what I am saying: OpenSuse and Fedora have different RPM
> macros and packaging guidelines but I'm glad to know that OBS builds in the
> target OS directly.
> 
> > >I looked quickly over the spec file and I call already tell that the spec file
> > >used would not be valid on Fedora, even more fun the source rpm doesn't even
> > >build on Fedora.
> > 
> > What is the problem? You are free to send patches to fix/enhance things.
> 
> On F21, for one, missing dependencies.

I'd love to fix those. Can you point them out to me? When first setting
things up I did a few test installs in VMs and all seemed to work fine.
But I never tried to build the source rpms, to be honest.

So as Guillaume said, independent from everything else we are talking
about, patches for this would be welcome. Or maybe I should grab your spec
file from corp and compare... btw, are the builds on corp current with all
the latest additions? libgit2 0.23, built against libcurl? libgrantlee
5.0.0?

/D