Package moving to testing (WAS: RE: Understanding my package entr y in update_excuses)

[Yves Arrouye <yves@realnames.com>]

> AND there needs to be a xerces package with a libxercesicu1 binary package
> that depends on libicu20 instead of libicu18 in unstable AND this xerxes
> package must be ready to go into testing (no open RC bugs and waited it's
> 2/5/10 days and no other dependency problems) so that icu and xerces can
> go into testing at the same time (testing otherwise refuses to upgrade icu
> because it would make libxercesicu1 uninstallable in testing).

I dug a bit into that. If I just apt-get source xerces and then build it
against libicu-dev_2.0-3 the resulting libxercesicu1 package is fine (except
that for some interesting reason, the shlibs depends do not list the
dependency on libicu, even though ldd shows it!). So if it were rebuilt it
would work. Are you saying that what is visible in unstable as far as binary
packages is what conditions deciding what moves to testing? I.e. unless it
has been "proven" in unstable, a package won't get rebuilt just to try for
testing?

Thanks,
YA