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Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?



On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:15:25 +0200
Sven Bartscher <sven.bartscher@weltraumschlangen.de> wrote:

> 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.

Sorry. s/is out of date/misses a dependency/

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