Re: transition of packages into testing
On to, 2007-06-21 at 14:40 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> I am trying to figure out why texmacs has not entered into testing. I
> visited http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=texmacs but there I
> was not able to find any useful information. All it says is
>
> * trying to update texmacs from 1:1.0.6-11 to 1:1.0.6.10-1 (candidate is 31
> days old)
> * texmacs is not yet built on hppa: 1:1.0.6.9-4 vs 1:1.0.6.10-1 (missing 1
> binary: texmacs)
> * texmacs is not yet built on ia64: 1:1.0.6-11 vs 1:1.0.6.10-1 (missing 1
> binary: texmacs)
>
> Since candidate is 31 (> 10)days old, it should be fine to enter testing.
> Right? Can someone please explain?
It must be at least ten days old, but that is not the only criterion.
Another criterion is that it's built on all the architectures the
previous version in testing is built on. It seems it's missing builds on
hppa and ia64. You could check the buildd logs on buildd.debian.org to
see if there's any problems.
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