Hi, Yes, the version of slang in sarge needs to be bumped to include the shlibs fix in sid. I'd misread the deadline as being the last day for uploads to _sid_ rather than the last day for transitions to _sarge_.
The depends were overly strict; it would be sufficient for >> 2 rather than >>4. Unfortunately bug #264080 (filed against whiptail) appears to be due to changes in slang. I am debugging this now. If a fix is required to slang, I will upload a new slang to testing-proposed-updates, otherwise Steve Langasek agreed to just transition slang to sarge. Regards Alastair >Hello, >Sorry for the overlong subject. ;-) > >It has been brought to our attention that slang breaks the base >freeze, because any package linking against slang uploaded to sid >now cannot propagate to sarge because the slang's shlibs have been >bumped. slang 1.4.9dbs-4 and -5 were uploaded on 26 Jul 2004 with >urgency=low therefore without any chance of making the base-freeze >deadline. > >I have tried to understand why 1.4.9dbs-5 forces (>> 1.4.9dbs-4) >dependencies in its shlibs file but the only change in the source-code >between 1.4.9dbs-3 and 1.4.9dbs-5 is the bugfix for #260898 exactly as >posted by Colin Watson in the BTS. And I completely fail to see how >this patch can change the ABI. > > cu andreas[2] >[1] whitespace broken due to c'n'p, apply with patch -l. >[2] No I am no release manager but >http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/08/msg00530.html >-- >"See, I told you they'd listen to Reason," [SPOILER] Svfurlr fnlf, >fuhggvat qbja gur juveyvat tha. >Neal Stephenson in "Snow Crash" >
