On 07/07/14 19:11, Paul Gevers wrote: > On 05-07-14 12:28, Daniel Lintott wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 05/07/14 10:50, mdt wrote: >>> Package: gns3 >>> Version: 0.7.4-1 >>> Severity: wishlist >>> >>> Dear Maintainer, >>> the current backport 0.8.6-3~bpo70+1 have a Depends on dynamips (>=0.2.8) but wheezy has 0.2.7-0.2.8RC2-5.1 and none backport are available. >>> Please backport dynamips 0.2.12-1. >>> Thanks. >> >> I was wondering how long it'd be before this was picked up on... I have >> backported Dynamips as well... but it hasn't been uploaded :( >> >> To the backport list: >> Would anyone be prepared to get this uploaded for me? This package can >> be found here: http://mentors.debian.net/package/dynamips > > Is the Depends on dynamips really required, or just the result of an > unclean build? If the later, we could just rebuild cleanly. If the > former, IIAC the backport of gns3 should be removed until the dependency > tree is fixed. I have no interest in either of the packages, so I am not > going to upload dynamips, sorry, but I could build/upload gns3 for you > if that helps. I have not investigated myself yet, so you will have to > do that for me. > The depends on Dynamips was bumped as features were introduced into dynamips since 0.2.8 that are used by GNS3... the depends is there for a good reason (and is hardcoded in the control as opposed to automatically filled, for this reason) CC'ing Aron (who uploaded the GNS3 backport for me) - would you be able to build and upload Dynamips? As a side note... I am the maintainer for both of these packages in Debian and work very closely with the upstream on development and bug-fixing as well as using them myself. Daniel
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