Today I made QA uploads of clig and genparse, setting the maintainer to the QA group.
I also had a fiddle with beecrypt. I broke from my usual practice of not doing anything as intrusive as a new upstream release in a QA upload, because there was a single bug open for over a year, relating to some endianness issues on ARM. I figured that as upstream had done quite a few releases since the version currently in Debian, it was worthwhile updating it, as it might fix this particular bug.
I even went as far as trying to build it on an ARM box, however the build failed, for some strange reasons:
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checking for uint64_t... yes
checking for unsigned long... yes
checking size of unsigned long... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof
(unsigned long), 77
See `config.log' for more details.
make: *** [configure-stamp] Error 1
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with config.log saying stuff like
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configure:31469: gcc -o conftest -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wa,--noexecstack
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DOPTIMIZE_ARM -z noexecstack conftest.c -lpthread
>&5
gcc: noexecstack: No such file or directory
configure:31472: $? = 1
configure: program exited with status 1
configure: failed program was:
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so I am holding off uploading that one until upstream (or someone with more gcc/autoconf juju than me) gets back to me.