Re: A question about update-excuses (was Re: testing is broken)
Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:14:23PM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote:
> > ---
> > * python2 2.0-6 (new) (optional) (low)
> > * Maintainer: Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>
> > * python2 uploaded 48 days ago, out of date by 38 days!
> > * out of date on m68k: python2-base, python2-dev, python2-tk, python2-xmlbase (from 2.0-4) (but m68k isn't keeping up, so ignoring this problem)
> > * there are up to date bins in m68k also
> > * valid candidate (will be installed unless it's dependent upon other buggy pkgs)
> > ---
> > However, there doesn't seem to be any real package called python2; instead
> > python2-base provides python2. None of the other packages from the python2
> > source seem to depend on "other buggy pkgs". There must be an easier way to
> > figure to figure this out :-).
>
> It's just plain difficult to figure out. The only ray of light at the moment
> is the update_output.txt page. In python2's case, down towards the bottom,
> it says:
>
> python2: m68k: idle-python2 python2-examples python2-regrtest
>
> which means python2 wasn't included because it made some packages uninstallable
> that are currently installable in testing; in this case it's idle-python2,
> python2-examples and python2-regrtest on m68k.
>
> Looking at the m68k Packages files for unstable, we see these packages
> dependencies look like:
>
> idle-python2 Depends: python2-tk (>= 2.0-6)
> python2-examples Depends: python2-base (>= 2.0-6)
> python2-regrtest Depends: python2-base (>= 2.0-6)
>
> python2-tk and python2-base are out of date on m68k and can't meet those
> dependencies though. Ain't arch: all package skew great? There's a similar
> problem with perl.
How hard would it be to make the excuses file tell more about what's
blocking a particular package ?
For example, five of my packages have been stuck in unstable
(utah-glx, aleph, xwave, am-utils, and amd), with am-utils and amd
being very dearly needed in testing (testing's amd does not work, and
I keep getting bugs about that).
They all have simple dependencies that are all in testing already,
yet some of them have been stuck in unstable for more than 2 months !
Phil.
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