Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote:
> It may not be "grave" for the installer (indeed, you've already
> established at great length that it's not an installer problem at all)
> but that doesn't make it any the less grave for whatever package it
> does belong to. You've given me a few hints as to how to figure out
> what package that might be. Any further help -- from anyone more
> knowledgeable than I -- will be appreciated, of course.
This looks like a fairly likely reason:
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gnome-core
For some reason the package was forced to testing even though it was not
available on all architectures.
If that is the reason, then it means that Gnome is currently not
installable on all but 5 architectures. With powerpc probably the only one
very many people will really care about (though that's a steadily
declining number).
It's almost certain that both the relevant package maintainer and the
release team are already aware of this and that it has been a conscious
choice to accept the breakage. Whether or not it should block the release
of D-I is up to others.
How did I get there (I needed the roundabout way because I don't have a
powerpc box; it would have been trivial to check in aptitude)?
- http://edos.debian.net/edos-debcheck/
- choose squeeze -> in the most recent run, choose powerpc ->
http://edos.debian.net/edos-debcheck/results/testing/1261006803/powerpc/list.php
And notice that gnome-accessibility (and a few others, but that seems the
most likely cause) is listed, and check the reasons.
A new version of the package (1:2.28+3) has been built for all arches:
https://buildd.debian.org/~luk/status/package.php?p=meta-gnome2
But looks to be blocked by other packages for now:
http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=meta-gnome2
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