On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 06:15:29AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On 23 January 2008 at 09:00, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: > | Hi Dirk,
> | according to http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=gretl, the > | only thing preventing gretl 1.7.1 from going into testing is a problem on > | the mipsel platform. However, it looks like the build on mipsel went ok as > | early as 2007/30/12. ^^^^^^^^^^ (WTF, argh, reverse-middle-endian dates?) > | > (http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=gretl&ver=1.7.1-1&arch=mipsel&stamp=1198998979&file=log) > | Is there anything I/we can do? > Not really. This really frustrates me with another R package that has failed > to build in November (because the arch was not having all pieces in place) > and hasn't been retried. > One can try a mail to debian-release but as Gretl is, in the grand Debian > sense, a fairly marginal package on which nothing else depends, chances may > be it just gets ignored as those guys typically have to deal with bigger and > messier transition (like C++ libraries etc) Anyway, I will CC the > debian-release list. > Eventually, this will sort itself out. As I said before, an alternative is to > provide a local repo for your users, as silly as it seems as Debian should > just push through here. gretl/mipsel is already in the needs-build queue, but there are a large number of other packages in the queue due to recent problems with the mipsel buildd. Nothing to do here but wait for this package's turn. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
