Re: RM: kfreebsd-headers-9.2-1-486 [i386] -- ANAIS; obsolete package

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On 2013-10-07 14:08, Robert Millan wrote:
> Steven Chamberlain:
> > http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=kfreebsd-9
> > > Updating kfreebsd-9 makes 5 non-depending packages uninstallable on
> > > i386: cuse4bsd-dkms, fuse4bsd-dkms, kfreebsd-headers-486,
> > > kfreebsd-headers-686, kfreebsd-headers-xen
> >
> > Note that britney tests i386 first, then aborts without checking 
> > other
> > architectures.
> >
> > cuse4bsd-dkms and fuse4bsd-dkms are Arch: all so I'm not sure why 
> > that's
> > a problem.
>
> I think Britney considers uninstallability of an "Arch: all" package 
> on
> i386 a regression, and therefore doesn't allow it.

Specifically, britney requires arch:all packages to be installable on 
i386, and only checks them on that architecture.

> I guess this part will require manual handling by -release? (CCing)
>
> Otherwise we'd have to make those packages kfreebsd-any...

It'd need a force-hint, which says "ignore any installability issues 
created by migrating this source package" and only applies to the 
particular version of the package. That's obviously not ideal for 
something that's going to want to migrate on a fairly regular basis.

Regards,

Adam