On Mon, 08 Jun 2020 08:38:44 +0200 Pino Toscano <p...@debian.org> wrote: > In data lunedì 8 giugno 2020 08:06:42 CEST, Dimitri John Ledkov ha scritto: > > > I'm pretty sure boost 1.67.0 can stay 3 months more around, especially > > > since I see it is still not the only package using the old boost. > > > > > > > No, it cannot as it entangles too many other transitions. > > Which ones exactly, other than the ICU one? (And the ICU one could be > easily done by rebuilding boost1.67.0 too) >
No, boost1.67 will not be rebuilt against new ICU as that will break upgrades from stable. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=962040 from release team & the discussion on the boost1.71 transition bug. > > boost1.67 will be shortly removed from both testing and unstable. > > Again, please open bugs about this. Also, where is this info coming > from? I don't see anything in > https://bugs.debian.org/961995 (boost-defaults transitions) > https://bugs.debian.org/ftp.debian.org (ftp-masters bugs) > boost1.67 is RC buggy in both testing & unstable. I'm not sure what else i need to open? And those bugs already blocked by kig's bug RE:python2 removal. > > Since the package is broken in both testing and unstable, in different > > ways, please request its removal. > > The package in unstable is *not* broken. > It build-depends & depends on an RC buggy package, and thus is RC too, making kig subject to autoremoval. > > Please stop intentionally delaying completion of multiple archive > > transitions. > > This is definitely way too harsh and untrue, especially when you are > providing literally no references to blocked things or schedules for > removals. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=936794 was filed on Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 07:22:06 +0000 kig is a leaf package, itself not blocked by anything to migrate to python3 or at least stop (temporarily) using python2. leaf packages like kig are overdue to drop python2 support. > > > Would you like me to upload NMU to delayed/2 that disable python bindings? > > Please not, and please rather answer the questions I asked. kig had 9 months notice that it is blocking removal of python2 from unstable. you can see progress of boost transition at https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/boost1.71.html mips builders are a bit slow, and there are lots of patches uploaded to DELAYED/2 to fix outstanding packages. boost1.67 is declared RC buggy by the release team, thus everything outstanding will be removed as soon as practical. -- Regards, Dimitri.
