Re: Removal of apt-cross from Squeeze is imminent
Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> writes:
> It turns out that apt-cross is even more broken than I thought. Not
> only does it mostly fail to work with the version of apt in Squeeze (at
> least it fails more often than it works in my experience) and cannot
> handle the Arch:all development packages allowed by Policy and can no
> longer determine the suite to use because apt-cache policy has changed
> format, now it is completely unable to handle any locale other than C
> and POSIX.
>
> The apt perl bindings translate the names of the control fields in the
> binary cache file which apt-cross tries to use, without preserving the
> untranslated tags which apt uses to identify that a particular
> translated word means "Depends".
>
> Therefore, the apt cache received by apt-cross - despite patches trying
> to force apt to output the cache in LC_ALL=C - contains translated text
> instead of "Depends:", "Conflicts", "Provides" and "Replaces".
>
> I was planning on uploading a new version of the emdebian-crush source
> package today which puts xapt into Debian experimental via the NEW
> queue. This version also drops the dependency of emdebian-crush on
> apt-cross. Instead, it depends on pdebuild-cross which in turn depends
> on xapt. I'm checking with the release team about what can be done with
> xapt.
>
> apt-cross now has an RC bug filed against it and I've had to tag this
> bug as wontfix and confirmed because I have tried and failed to find a
> fix within apt-cross itself. I'm in the process of checking with the
> release team about xapt but I have confirmed that as apt-cross fails to
> operate in any locale other than C/POSIX/en*, this alone is sufficient
> to deem the package as "failing to operate for most users" which is RC.
>
> If emdebian-crush 2.2.6 is allowed to migrate, there would be no reverse
> dependencies of apt-cross in Squeeze and the release team will remove
> apt-cross from Squeeze.
Please note that due to your insistence on the simplicity (and
buggyness) of xapt it is in no way a replacement for apt-cross. It does
not work for anything but pbuilder.
If you want it to replace apt-cross then some fixing has to be done.
MfG
Goswin
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