On 29.06.22 17:14, Stuart Stevenson wrote:
What does 'autoremoval from testing' mean? Is it good or bad?
Harmless. Mostly :)
When there is a bug to a package that is not fixed then the package is
removed from the testing distribution of Debian that is the next stable
release. And with it all packages that depend on that package need to
go. Such removals are mighty annoying when the dependency just affects
some borderline use of some software. On the plus side, this gets things
fixed more quickly.
A removal from testing does not mean that it is removed from unstable,
i.e. the Debian distribution in which all uploaded packages appear
before 5 days later transitioning to testing. This (very ironic) renders
unstable sometimes more stable than testing.
The background to this bug is that there was this abi change to the tiff
library that affected the Img Tk library. This was first spotted from
within LinuxCNC. I personally take this as an indication that LinuxCNC
is one of the most-used Tk applications these days :) It is not our bug,
though. And someone has already or is about to fix this.
Such incompatibilities happen all the time. It is the main purpose of a
Linux distribution to spot these and fix them. With LinuxCNC now being
part of the very latest of Debian in Debian unstable (and unstable+5
bugfree days = testing) LinuxCNC is more exposed to this
distribution-development. A year from now the current testing
distribution will be frozen, i.e. no more uploads and thus no more
sudden incompatibilities, and after loads of bug fixes released as the
new stable.
Best,
Steffen
On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 11:34 AM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
On 6/23/22 10:31, Debian testing autoremoval watch wrote:
linuxcnc 2.9.0~pre0+git20220402.2500863908-4 is marked for autoremoval
from testing on 2022-07-13
It is affected by these RC bugs:
1012789: linuxcnc-uspace: Linux CNC will not start
https://bugs.debian.org/1012789
I beg to differ, this mornings install from the buildbot for both wintel
and armhf machines
is working fine. And has done so for every install here. sometimes at
less than daily intervals
for an updated install since the last time the buildbot was restarted.
Pix of two machines running it are at:
<geneslinuxbox.net:6309>
This is all on uptodate buster. The last time I tried to build on
bullseye was on the rpi4 (armhf)
and it failed on both a wintel and on an armhf because the python was
too new.
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