Re: Packages removed from testing
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 12:47:47PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:40:13AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 11:31:37PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > Hello world,
> > > base-config | 0.43 | source, alpha, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc
> > > lilo | 1:21.6-2 | source, i386
> > Without these, it pretty much makes testing uninstallable using current
> > boot-floppies. Is that really the intention of testing? Does removing
> > these really help anything other than your numbers?
>
> Yes, it makes it obvious that woody's not even remotely releasable at the
> moment.
With a potato package, it would be releasable though. We don't need
"fixed sid" packages to release, we just need stable ones.
> Other problems of some note are:
>
> * libc6 on sparc doesn't build libncurses correctly
Uh, no, this has not been proven conclusively yet. Just because it
builds on potato, and not on woody, does not mean libc6 is at fault. I
need to check into this today.
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