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Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?



Hei Sven,

On 18/08/14 18:10, Sven Bartscher wrote:
> If we have a package, which doesn't migrate to testing, we usually
> check the "Why does package X not in testing yet?" page or the PTS.
> Usually they do a great job in telling us why our package doesn't
> migrate.
> 
> But sometimes you have packages, which have complicated dependencies,
> that don't make it easy to tell why our package doesn't migrate.
> Usually the PTS and "Why is package X not in testing yet?" fail at
> those packages and don't give any useful explanation. For example look
> at the page for haskell-hgettext[1].

you might want to have a look at comigrate [1] a tool designed to
answer these kind of questions and provide explanations that are as
compat as possible. For example for haskell-hgettext [2] . If you find
it useful, I'm sure the authors would be happy to hear from you.

[1] http://coinst.irill.org/comigrate/
[2] http://coinst.irill.org/report/p/haskell-hgettext.html

pietro


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