Hi all, This is a quick note to inform the maintainers of the packages listed above that these packages are currently all have interrelated reasons for not progressing into testing. Some of these reasons are obvious from glancing at update_excuses, but others are less so; hopefully, laying this out will help you cooperatively plan for your packages' inclusion in testing. Here's the breakdown: - Krb4, heimdal, and cyrus-sasl2 must all be hinted into testing at the same time due to library transitions. The hint is ready to go for this, though the packages are not because: - Installing the new version of heimdal in testing breaks the version of postgresql currently in testing. The version of postgresql in unstable no longer depends on heimdal (it uses MIT Kerberos instead), so it doesn't have to go in at the same time as the above three packages -- it can go in before them, when it's ready. - Postgresql is currently not ready, because it's held up by perl. There are two outstanding bugs on perl due to unexpected ABI breakage in perl 5.8.1. The perl maintainers are working on reverting this breakage, and I would estimate 2-3 weeks for the fix to reach the archive (and 2 days after that to reach testing). Interested parties can find the discussion on debian-perl@lists.debian.org if you would like to lend a hand with the package preparation/testing. - The new version of coreutils (aside from currently being out-of-date on m68k, which should be remedied soon) cannot be installed in testing until krb4 is updated there, because it's an Essential: yes package with a dependency on libacl1, which conflicts with libacl1-kerberos4kth, with the net result that libacl1-kerberos4kth would be uninstallable. Please consider this an invitation to a mini-freeze for these packages, and also an invitation to help watch over one another's packages over the next few weeks to facilitate a smooth transition. Ideally, all of these packages will be eligible for testing in a little over two weeks; but one bad upload of a package with a 10-day waiting period could easily throw that off. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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