On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:31:36AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Also, the bug de-facto still exists. It's still not possible to > dist-upgrade w3m or libgc6 from woody to sarge. > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/libg/libgc.html > > "The package has not yet entered testing even though the 10-day delay is over. > > # 53 days old (needed 10 days) > # Valid candidate" > > 43 days of extra delay for no apparent reason is pretty bad. Have you > spoken to the Release Manager or his deputies about this?
We're aware of it (or, well, I am anyway - I imagine others noticed too). > In the event you haven't, I am CCing this message to debian-release; > hopefully this problem can be resolved, or the QA site's output improved > to reveal the actual reason libgc is being prevented from entering > testing. packages.qa.debian.org shows only output from update_excuses.html, which is essentially just an initial optimization step and as such incomplete. To get full information you also need to check update_output.txt. http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/ does this. trying: libgc skipped: libgc (0 <- 208) got: 52+0: a-52 * alpha: bock, chase, goo, libooc-x11-dev, libooc-xml-dev, oo2c, openc++, stklos, w3m, w3m-img, w3mmee, w3mmee-img, wmanager Library soname changes often cause this kind of problem, since all their reverse-dependencies need to be updated. In this case, my notes say that the following problems need to be resolved: * oo2c needs to be rebuilt: #211342. * stalin needs to be built on arm and m68k. * stklos needs to be rebuilt: #207027. * w3m's release-critical bugs need to be fixed so that it's a candidate for testing. (The other packages listed have been updated; they're just listed because upgrading libgc *on its own* does break them. I know of no fully automatic way to find this out other than running britney in a simulation setup.) Once these problems are fixed, libgc will need a "hint" from a release-type person; Ryan is fully capable of doing that himself, or else one of us will do it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
