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Re: how-to push a package in testing ?



On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 02:42:59PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 01:56:07PM -0500, christophe barb? wrote:
> > I see two solutions :
> > . upgrade of libusb and packages depending on it
> 

The big problem seems to be sane-backends.
Apparently the alpha bug should be now solved.

One RC bug has a patch.
The other RC bug is 16 days old.

I understand that sane is a must have for woody even if I don't use it.

> The packages (by source) appear to be:
> 
>     sane-backends (alpha, mips, buggy)
>     sane-frontends (alpha, ia64)
>     xsane

The arm problem seems to be solved. As I understand it a rebuild is
necessary.

>     gphoto2 (arm)
>     kdegraphics (arm)

The following packages are just waiting for libusb :

>     gtktiemu -> libticables3, libticalcs3, libti68k
>     tilp
>     libgpio
>     pencam

Christophe

> 
> sane-backends has two RC bugs, one of which has been open for more than a
> week. 139509 appears like it should get sane-backends to build on mips; it's
> not clear what'll fix it on alpha, but that needs to happen too.
> 
> sane-frontends has a versioned build-dependency on libc6-dev, which makes
> it fail on alpha and ia64, since those architectures use libc6.1-dev (which
> provides: libc6-dev).
> 
> gphoto2 doesn't build correctly on arm, see:
> 	http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=arm&pkg=gphoto2&ver=2.0final-3
> 
> kdegraphics seems to need a newer version of gphoto2 to be built on arm
> before it will work.
> 
> There may be other packages which need to be upgraded at the same time
> as libusb. All of them need to be built on all architectures and free
> of release critical bugs for this to happen.
> 
> Cheers,
> aj
> 
> -- 
> Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/>
> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred.
> 
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>        toe individually.'' -- with kudos to Greg Lehey



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A qui sait comprendre, peu de mots suffisent.
(Intelligenti pauca.) 

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