On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 01:42:17 Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> (2014-11-24):
> > On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 14:30 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > > control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
> > > control: retitle -1 RM: debian-installer [sparc] -- out of date, doesn't
> > > build>
> > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 06:37:40PM -0800, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > > Given that src:eglibc is pretty much obsoleted by src:glibc now, I'd
> > > > guess the easiest way to fix this would be to just request the
> > > > removal of src:eglibc from sid.
> > >
> > > It has already been removed as it can be seen in bug #753420. It's still
> > > in the Sources files with Extra-Source-Only: yes, you should ignore
> > > these packages when doing archive rebuilds.
> > >
> > > It's still there because debian-installer from sparc is still using it.
> > > I am therefore reassigning the bug to ftp.debian.org to ask for
> > > debian-installer removal on sparc.
> >
> > ftp-master mentioned on IRC that they'd like an explicit KiBi-{,n}ack on
> > this; CCing.
Yes. Thanks for the CC.
> Looking at the eglibc vs. glibc thing, it seems to be it wouldn't cause
> any troubles if debian-installer were to build again on sparc later,
> since it would then pull the new glibc package as Extra-Source-Only:
> yes? So there's no need to try and make sure it no longer builds there
> (n-f-u or similar)?
>
> In which case: yes, it looks to me old binaries can be removed.
>
> [ Cc-ing debian-boot@ just in case. ]
I'll wait until tomorrow (Tuesday) to do the removal to give people at least a
little time to scream.
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