While walking through my list of things needed for amd64 I found that 'pinfo' still is not fixed. The 'pinfo' package is not installable on amd64 at this time. Previous discussion of this problem is here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/01/msg00155.html It was determined at the time that there was a time skew bug that was causing the build failure. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=290618 At the time it seemed reasonable to wait for the maintainer to react to the bug and to upload a fixed version. After 113 days that does not seem to be going to happen in time for sarge. But now that I am looking at the package in more detail I am not convinced that this problem is the same as the file skew problem. The diff.gz does patch both the pinfo.info and pinfo.texi files. A time skew could cause makeinfo (not declared as a dependency) to be called to update the file. But if that happens the 'missing' program would be called wrapping it and preventing this call from failing the build. I am now thinking that the problem was a disk space problem on the build machine when this was autobuilt for amd64. I think the patched pinfo.info file became zero length at that time and is the real cause of our current problem. Or possibly a bad 'makeinfo' in the buildd at the time of this build may have caused a problem. Becuase a time skew would have caused makeinfo to be called to build the pinfo.info file. Are the buildd logs for amd64 available? If so where? Because I think the error might show in the logs for it. Could 'pinfo' be re-queued for the buildds for amd64 please? I believe that will resolve the issue. I don't think this needs to change upstream in the Debian archive to resolve this problem for amd64. Thanks Bob
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