Re: No libtiff transition for sarge

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 06:37:14PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 06:18:15PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Unless the release managers drop their current release plan and revert 
> > the base freeze, the libtiff transition can't get into sarge [1].
> > 
> > This means that fixes for packages depending directly or indirectly on 
> > libtiff (e.g. via depending on libgtk2.0-0) that aren't already in  
> > testing have to go through testing-proposed-updates.
> 
> Package: libtiff3g
> Priority: optional
> 
> Package: libtiff4
> Priority: optional
> 
> This implies that there is no package with priority standard or higher
> which depends against any of the libtiff versions, so please specify the
> problems.

The problem is that some packages in unstable have after the libtiff4 
transition a dependency on a frozen package that can't be fulfilled in 
sarge (since this frozen package is not or only in an older version in 
sarge).


The most obvious example:


unstable:

Package: gthumb
Version: 3:2.4.1-3
Depends: ..., libgpg-error0 (>= 1.0), ..., libtiff4, ...

Package: libgpg-error0
Version: 1.0-1


sarge:

Package: gthumb
Version: 3:2.3.2-1
Depends: ..., libtiff3g, ...

Package: libgpg-error0
Version: 0.7-3


libgpg-error is frozen.


> Bastian

cu
Adrian

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