Bug#205691: HPPA: dependencies broken BOTH in testing and unstable
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:06:24AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Oddly enough, we aren't idiots: this was deliberate. The release
> > manager was perfectly aware that hppa was out of sync. However, a
> > huge amount of other stuff was waiting for glibc in testing, and it
> > really wasn't practical to wait for hppa any longer. If we get a
> > fixed hppa glibc 2.3.2 in time, which is being worked on, it'll go
> > into testing.
>
> I still think that skiping a supported architecture, as well as the
> ground rule about syncing everything before allowing a package to
> slide down to testing, is a REALLY bad idea, especialy for something
> so fundamental as glibc.
Sometimes bad things are a practical necessity.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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