Re: update excuses: what does "but foo is screwed anyway"?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org> wrote:
>"Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org> wrote:
>> * out of date on arm: libwings-dev, libwmaker0-dev, wmaker (from
>>   0.61.1-4) (but arm is screwed anyway)
>>
>> what does that mean?  In particular, what relation does that bear with
>> the installability (or lack of it) of a package into testing?
>
>The "but ... is screwed anyway" doesn't really mean anything; it certainly 
>doesn't bear any direct relation to the installability of the package.

At the moment, "but $arch is screwed anyway" seems to indicate that the
testing scripts are allowing those architectures to get a little out of
sync. man-db is a fairly good example.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]