On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 03:27:13PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: >Am Sonntag, den 04.11.2012, 13:11 +0100 schrieb Julien Cristau: >> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 22:11:42 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: >> > @release-team: There is a reportedly grave bug with haskell-warp, and a >> > fix is available. Unfortunately, the route of updating testing via >> > unstable is broken, some uploads aimed for experimental have ended up in >> > unstable² >> > >> Can't those be reverted? > >not easily. Debian does not allow uploading a lower version number, so >the versions of the reverted packages need to be higher than the >accidental uploads, either via an epoch or via 2.0~really1.0 tricks. In >either case, all depending packages need sourceful uploads to adjust >their build dependency version ranges (which currently exclude the >accidentally uploaded version and hence all later ones) to include this >“strange” versions, turning this into a sizable undertaking.
That's a nasty mess there. :-( Do we have any hope of progress on this RC bug? Otherwise it's incredibly tempting to push for removal of libghc-warp-dev considering its tiny popcon and the fact that it has never been in a stable Debian release... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
