Re: [Help-smalltalk] gnu smalltalk is being removed from the upcoming ubuntu release

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 04/07/2010 11:39 AM, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 11:18 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 04/07/2010 11:01 AM, Salvador Fandino wrote:
> > > See
> > >
> > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2010-April/000700.html
> > >
> > > Actually no Smalltalk will be available in that version of Ubuntu as
> > > squeak is also being removed.
> >
> > What was the rationale?
>
> I can't find the failed build record easily
> (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnu-smalltalk is the starting
> point to find such things)
>
> 3.1 hasn't been synced because its still in Debian unstable and hasn't
> propogated to testing -
> http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=gnu-smalltalk

Debian unstable fails to build on some arches because of a missing 
syscall, so it didn't migrate to testing.  Commit 
8e15bee3ce81951e598317b9c4f2da472b78800b would be needed (only the 
libgst/ and packages/sockets parts are really necessary).

Can anybody here do an NMU?

Paolo