Bug#1051965: compat-el: new upstream release 29.1.4.2 needed by elpa-hl-todo/sid
Пт 15 сен 2023 @ 14:25 David Bremner <david@tethera.net>:
> Lev Lamberov <dogsleg@debian.org> writes:
>
>>> elpa-hl-todo has a versioned depends which is wrong.
>>
>> It is not wrong. It is as it is stated in the code, and as it is
>> detected by dh-elpa.
>>
>> Personally, I don't see any problem here. The hl-todo-el package is just
>> waiting for the latest upstream version of complat-el. There's no hurry
>> to make its way into testing right now. From my point of view there is
>> only a wishlist bug requesting the latest upstream version of compat-el
>> to be uploaded into unstable.
>
> Yeah, I see what you mean, but the versioned depends is unsatisfiable in
> unstable, so it doesn't make sense to upload the package to unstable,
> unless there is something weird like a circular dependency.
>
> I don't think it's OK for packages in unstable to be uninstallable in
> unstable. It certainly meets the textbook definition of a release
> critical bug, since nobody can actually use the package.
Unstable is... well, unstable. Sometimes things break there. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There's no point in removing either compat-el or hl-todo-el from testing
because of this.
Regards,
Lev
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