On Sat, 2012-04-07 at 21:00 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 04/07/2012 08:32 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > In the case of Boost, much of the package is header-only libraries, > > so the Good and Bad categories do not apply. How is a transition > > managed when most of the dependencies are Unknown? Are the Unknowns > > mainly ignored and transition is declared done when there are no > > longer any Bad packages? > > > Yes, almost. Packages marked "unknown" do not influence the migration. > We tend to ignore them most of the time (I beleive), but we check if > those package have been built recently to know whether we should binNMU > them for the transition.
Although we generally ignore "unknown" packages, as you mentioned there are many cases where those packages do use boost during the build process but there isn't a resultant run-time dependency. At least for the binNMUs I've scheduled so far for that transition, I've also included "unknown" packages where the date of the last build was before the boost-defaults upload; that means that cases like vtk show up in the rebuilds (along with a few other FTBFS which don't appear to be boost-related). Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
