Re: Gcc-3.4 holds back packages from testing?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> perhaps I missed something in my three weeks holidays but something
> seems strange to me.  If I look at the nice extended graph for the
> excuses available in PTS (MANY THANKS FOR THIS!) for instance of the
> package xteddy I get
>
>     ...
>
> xteddy is waiting for libungif4, tiff
>
>     * libungif4 is waiting for gcc-3.4
>           o gcc-3.4 has release-critical bugs
>           o gcc-3.4 is waiting for gcc-3.3
>                 + gcc-3.3 has release-critical bugs
>                 + gcc-3.3 is waiting for gcc-3.4
>
>     ...
>
> I wonder in how far gcc-3.4 is able to prevent packages from moving to
> testing if it is not even in testing and packages should be builded with
> gcc-3.3.  Anybody able to enlighten me?

Linked against libgcc1 build by gcc-3.4 in sid.

gcc-3.4 is in t-p-u and is waiting for the arm build to finish.

After that all tif and ocaml packages can/have to go in together.

> Kind regards
>
>          Andreas.

MfG
        Goswin