Hi Alexander, On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 01:08:27PM +0200, Alexander Dreyer wrote: > > That's kind of 'normal' that packages become outdated in the release > > process. It might be reasonable to consider backports if you want to > > make sure that users of Wheezy will be able to use the latest version. > This should not a big deal, despite the fact, that one dependency > (libm4ri) needs backporting, too.
OK. > > So from my perspective the issue will be cured automatically after the > > next upload to unstable and I personally do not feel motivated to spend > > my time in tweaking the web sentinel to care for those kind of > > exceptions - but patches are perfectly welcome. > I agree, this should not be the task now. Fine. > > PS: When I started writing I triggered the web sentinel creation > > manually and noticed that > > > > http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/mathematics#polybori > > > > is proving me wrong: Experimental has in fact preference over > > the other releases and I do regard *this* as a bug (according to > > my previous arguments) because it hides the fact that there is such > > a package inside the official Debian release. I hope I will find > > the time to fix this as long as this is not "fixed" by an upload to > > unstable. > This might be, because there were not any *binary* packages called > "polybori" or "polybori-gui" in PolyBoRi 0.5. There was libpolybori-dev, > which is mentioned correctly in mathematics-dev. Uhmmm, I can relax and skip the debugging about that because you are right and http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/mathematics-dev#libpolybori-dev is correct. > Anyway this is inconsistent somehow. Well, from a source package perspective it seems inconsistent but from a users perspective who wants to install a binary package this is perfectly correct. The user can perfectly easily install libpolybori-dev but if he wants to install polybori he needs to add experimental to his sources.list. For sure you are looking from the developers site - but the tasks pages of the web sentinel are user centric and I think the way it is currently handled is reasonable. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
