Hi Rudi, This is probably a question for debian-release or debian-devel and not debian-science ...
I'll try to answer this from my vantage point, and I think that vorlon may correct any crass inaccurracies I state here. On 5 September 2007 at 06:07, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote: | Hi everybody, | | I have been trying to do a new release of "libcomplearn", a package I | have had in Debian but recently has fallen out of date because it is | stuck behind the dependent libgsl package. Unfortunately, the libgsl | package has been stuck for 55 days now [1]: 1. gsl builds everywhere and has been built everywhere (see the buildd page hanging off the QA link you give in [1]) 2. There are no 'excuses' (http://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=gsl) 3. And the winning answer is as usual provided by 'why is package X not in testing yet': http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=gsl Checking gsl trying to update gsl from 1.9-3 to 1.9-5 (candidate is 55 days old) Updating gsl makes 39 depending packages uninstallable on i386: adun.app, asymptote, bogofilter, bogofilter-bdb, bogofilter-qdbm, bogofilter-sqlite, dieharder, gmsh, gpiv, gpivtools, kst, kst-plugins, libgpiv2, libgpiv2-dev, libgsl-ruby, libgsl-ruby-doc, libgsl-ruby1.8, libmeep-dev, libmeep-mpi-dev, libmeep-mpi1, libmeep1, libocamlgsl-ocaml, libocamlgsl-ocaml-dev, liborsa0-dev, liborsa0c2a, meep, meep-mpi, orpie, pd-pdp, pdl, pspp, qtiplot, slang-gsl, snd, snd-gtk, xorsa, yacas, yacas-proteus, yorick-yeti-gsl Updating gsl makes 2 non-depending packages uninstallable on i386: libgimp-perl, med-bio This is what we call a library transition, and it doesn't work piecemeal. So if you feel energetic, try to figure out what the issue is with those 39 + 2 packages listed above, and offer help on those. Delays happen. We have many libaries, and many interdependencies. Sorry, Dirk (gsl maintainer) | I have tried emailing a few people, but have not had any luck figuring | out how to help get libgsl unstuck. I have also not found any | (certain) evidence that progress is being made. apt-cache rdepends | indicates that there are dozens of packages dependent on libgsl0 or | libgsl0ldbl and so I am beginning to be concerned that we are building | up a lot of delay. | | Can anybody reading this shed light on what the next logical step | would be here to unblock libgsl? I am a new maintainer and so have | not dealt with this issue before. It is essentially blocking most of | my Debian efforts, however, because almost all of my packages depend | on libcomplearn. Any help is much appreciated, | | Rudi | | [1]: http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gsl.html | | | -- | "We can try to do it by breaking free of the mental prison of | separation and exclusion and see the world in its interconnectedness | and non-separability, allowing new alternatives to emerge." | | | -- | To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
