On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 17:14 +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote: > On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Thibaut VARENE wrote: > > > libotr 4.0.0 hasn't entered testing yet and I don't > understand why. The > > status page reports that it hasn't been built on any arch > ("missing 3 > > binaries"), but those binaries are no longer built by > libotr.
They'll stay in unstable until ftp-master remove them. And that generally won't happen whilst they still have reverse-dependencies. > The transition looks like it is blocked by some RC bugs: > > http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/libotr5.html > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?sev-inc=serious;sev-inc=grave;sev-inc=critical;src=bitlbee;src=irssi-plugin-otr;src=mcabber;src=pidgin-otr;src=psi-plus > > > > Still don't get it: why are bugs in packages that depend on libotr > blocking libotr? See above. They're keeping libotr2 in the archive, and britney won't consider libotr for migration while that's the case. > libotr is perfectly fine and I don't see why it should be blocked from > moving to testing because some packages that depend on it aren't > properly maintained? Wnat if these packages are never updated to > libotr5? Then they should be removed from testing, and possibly from the archive altogether. One of the bugs had an update a week ago, so it seems a little unfair to claim it's "not properly maintained". > Are we going to punish those who have updated? This is for instance > preventing the migration of pidgin-otr and irssi-plugin-otr, and I'm > receiving (angry) mail about it (which is the reason why I looked into > this in the first place) ;-P Then you should tell them to help fix the RC bugs instead. :P You maintain a library with several reverse dependencies, and uploaded a package to Debian which changed its SONAME. Part of the implied responsibility of doing that is to help make sure that the reverse-dependencies are able to cope with the changes. I've pinged the bugs against the other packages to query progress. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
