Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Mittwoch, den 28.01.2009, 08:15 -0600 schrieb John Goerzen: >> I notice that the packages I uploaded for the ghc 6.8.2dfsg1 transition >> -- which were apparently needed urgently -- are still just sitting in >> unstable, and have not migrated to lenny. When will this happen? > > AFAIK, luk is the member of the release team responsible for the ghc > migration, you can probably ask him. My guess would be that there are > some package not built everywhere yet. Theoretically, one can find out > here: > http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_output.txt > after > Trying hint from luk: ghc6/6.8.2dfsg1-1 > But I don’t understand that output fully.
The last output line for the hint tells what would still get broken by pushing it in. I'm handholding the last builds/binNMUs to get it all migrated. >> I ask because I am near to releasing HDBC 2.0, and obviously can't >> upload it to unstable until the version that needs to go to lenny has >> migrated. I have several other packages already waiting on this as >> well. > > I suggest you upload that to experimental. At least it’s the lesson I > learned from the ghc6 issue: Only put stuff in sid that is somewhat > suitable for the current testing, even if frozen (or maybe NEW stuff). I > was just lucky that my packages, who have seen new versions in unstable, > are not affected by the transition. Yes, as a general rule that's true and in the current stage of the release definitely! Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
