Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net> writes: > Raphael Hertzog a écrit : >> I don't an exhaustive answer but here are some points: >> 1/ you can't request bin-nmus of reverse-dependencies in experimental >> (to verify that all packages build fine with the updated package, and >> that's one of the main task in preparing the transition) >> 2/ you have to manually reupload a new source package to unstable with all >> the delay it induces for getting the package built on all arches > Besides, you might have to version build-dependencies so that they are > taken from experimental. Worse, you might have to expand all transitive > build-dependencies and version them so that they are taken from > experimental (sbuild prefers to fail instead of installing from > experimental unless the versioned build-dependency is explicit). That's simply not the case anymore. > This is too impractical with OCaml, for example: it is impossible to > make a transition in experimental without an insane amount of work, > whereas recompiling all involved packages takes only a few hours (on > amd64). But in the last OCaml transition, quite a few problems were caused by packages failing to build on !amd64, so rebuilding them only there doesn't really help to find problem. Marc -- BOFH #419: Repeated reboots of the system failed to solve problem
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