[Holger Levsen] > the priority of #557074 (etcinsvk uses svk, scheduled for removal) > has been raised to serious, as svk has been removed from unstable > today, thus making debian-edu-config uninstable in sid (as it > depends on etcinsvk), thus making d-e-c seriously buggy.
As far as I know, svk was removed from unstable several weeks ago, and the new etcinsvk propagated to squeeze after this because svk was still in squeeze. Do you mean that it was removed from testing today? Anyway, unless someone show up to maintain svk, we have only two choices: - Drop etcinsvk, find and adjust replacement to behave more like etcinsvk (etckeeper have been mentioned). This will give all existing installations a problem in the future, as their etcinsvk revision history is lost. - Adjust etcinsvk to support alternative to svk, and implement migration code to move the history from svk to this alternative. More work, and better for the sysadmins with etcinsvk active. When it comes to debian-edu-config, I believe the dependency can be dropped without any bad happening, both in Lenny and Squeeze. I believe there is code in debian-edu-install to install etcinsvk independent of this dependency, and the code in debian-edu-config to use etcinsvk should be protected by tests to check if it is present before using it, so the package should also work without it. If not all places are protected like this, we need to add them. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
