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Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?



On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:53:52 +0200
Jérôme Vouillon <jerome.vouillon@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> wrote:

> Hi Joachim,
> 
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:07:57, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > unfortunately, comigrate doesn’t cut it for our case. From the page
> > for haskell-hgettext, I get redirected to haskell-uniplate, and from
> > there to other packages, none of which are the real culprit. Sven’s
> > tool has an idea of what must migrate together (relying on britney’s
> > autohinter) and ignores, for example, any dependency problems that
> > are among these packages.
> 
> I agree that the online report on http://coinst.irill.org/report/ is not
> appropriate in your case. In general, it will not report all issues
> preventing the migration of a package, and the issues are not presented
> conveniently on a single page. You should try the command line tool
> (Debian package 'coinst') instead.
> 
> Still, the report provides a lot more information than what you say.
> (Some list items can be unfolded by clicking on them or by clicking on
> the 'Expand all' button.) Here is what I can see regarding haskell-hgettext.
> 
> haskell-hgettext needs (to migrate together with) haskell-uniplate
> which needs haskell-unordered-containers and yi. yi needs
> haskell-unordered-containers and haskell-regex-tdfa.
> 
> haskell-unordered-containers will not migrate as it would break some
> packages on armel:
>    haskell-github, pandoc
> and kfreebsd-amd64:
>    haskell-snap, haskell-yesod-static, pandoc
> 
> haskell-regex-tdfa will not migrate as it has not yet been rebuilt on
> mips. Some binaries packages from haskell-hakyll,
> haskell-regex-tdfa-utf8, haskell-hledger-lib and haskell-unixutils
> depends on the obsolete binary package. Besides, the package cannot
> migrate as this would break haskell-hakyll on armel, kfreebsd-i386 and
> kfreebsd-amd64.
> 
> Thus, Bin-NMUS are needed for haskell-github, pandoc, haskell-snap,
> haskell-yesod-static and haskell-hakyll, haskell-regex-tdfa-utf8,
> haskell-hledger-lib and haskell-unixutils.
> 
> The online report does not list all issues preventing the migration of
> haskell-hgettext. But note than none of the issues above are reported by
> Sven's tool.

That's not really true.
My tool DID report that haskell-regex-tdfa is out of date on mips and
thus requires a binNMU. All reverse dependencies would have been
reported once haskell-regex-tdfa is rebuilt.
This is not really the best way, because it doesn't allow ordering
binNMUs in large groups.

Regards
Sven

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