Bug#924172: www.debian.org: differences under english/ between builds in stretch and buster

Hi Axel!

You can find my attempt to fix the debian build here:

https://www.shlomifish.org/Files/files/code/wml.debian-shlomify-1.diff

The sed addition to debian/rules seems to improve matters, but the restoration
of p9_slice (to fix loading SliceTermParser.pm ) gives dpkg-source a fit. I
really find the debian gbp stuff puzzling.

here is the script i used:

https://www.shlomifish.org/Files/files/text/docker-wml-debian-perl-v0.1.0.txt

On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 17:00:42 +0200
Axel Beckert <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Shlomi,
> 
> [taking Cyril and Laura out of the loop]
> 
> Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > IIRC I had test suite failures. Need to check 2.28 again. (And yes, I
> > > know, I haven't filed an upstream bug report yet — still haven't
> > > figured out what exactly is the cause for the failures.)  
> > 
> > Ah - thanks for the update. I guess I can try building the package
> > myself in a VM/container. For the record, the build and tests pass
> > fine in travis-ci/ubuntu bionic , locally on fedora and mageia, on
> > the mageia build system, and on appveyor/mswin10/cygwin .  
> 
> Yeah, another reason for not having it reported upstream is that I'm
> not yet sure if one of the Debian patches is the culprit.

It seems like this is the case.

> 
> Regarding Travis CI: IMHO its value is quite limited by the fact that
> Travis is nearly always two or more years behind the latest Ubuntu LTS
> release. (Actually I'm kinda surprised that they in the meanwhile
> managed to support 18.04. The last time I looked (IIRC a few months
> ago around the 20.04 release) they were still on 16.04.
> 

Yes, you can run docker containers in travis.

> > > Will do — as soon I get it building again.  
> > 
> > I'll try to help.  
> 
> Appreciated, but I would kinda feel bad in case one of the Debian
> patches will be identified as the culprit and someone else had to do
> my work. :-)

No worries.

> 
> > > > Converting some of my sites away from wml has shortened their
> > > > build times considerably.  
> > > 
> > > But are they as flexible as before while still being statically
> > > compiled? I doubt.  
> > 
> > They are still "statically compiled" (or generated:
> > https://github.com/shlomif/shlomif-tech-diary/blob/master/static-site-generators--despair.md
> > ), and I verified that they generated the same output before and
> > after using "diff -u -r", html-minifier and other tools. Template
> > Toolkit is fairly flexible [...]  
> 
> Ah, TT. Oh well, from my point of view, TT always felt too generic to
> me. I had the feeling that I'd have to write a lot of the
> infrastructure for static compiling that WML already offers (mainly
> wmk, but also some of the passes like splice), myself. So I never
> considered it to be a WML replacement but rather something that is on
> the same level as e.g. Embperl.)
>

Perhaps.
 
> 		Regards, Axel



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