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Re: Still don't understand update excuses



On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:56:49AM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote:
> I still don't quite understand the update excuses, I'm afraid. Take for
> example the following entry (shortened):
> 
>      * inform 6.21-2 (currently 6.21-1) (optional) (low)
>           + out of date on [248]sparc: inform (from 6.21-1)
>           + there are up to date bins in sparc also
>           + not considered
> 
> It is out of date, but up to date bins exist? What does that mean? What
> is the remedy? The package does not depend on anything except libc6.
> It's in non-free, but other packages are in non-free as well and do
> enter testing anyway.

You produce a binary-all and a binary-arch package, probably.  Some but
not all of the binaries produced from that source are current for
sparc.  Try building it on vore?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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