Bug#205691: HPPA: dependencies broken BOTH in testing and unstable
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:06:24AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:05:11AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > > > Package: locales
> > > > Version: 2.3.1-16
> > > > Followup-For: Bug #205691
> > > >
> > > > Actually, locales cannot be installed AT ALL in testing or unstable,
> > > > for HPPA. Kudos to whoever allowed the package to slide from unstable
> > > > to testing, without first ensuring that ALL architectures were in
> > > > sync. Hello, McFly!!! DOH!
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> It's impractical to allow one architecture to hold testing hostage for this
> long;
It was practical to hold Gnome2 for almost 1 year, though. How odd. :)
Besides, while 2.3.1 has been a long bottleneck thta prevented practically all
of unstable to slide into testing for about 6 months (IIRC), 2.3.2 has been
there for less than 1 month IIRC, so I really don't see the problem with waiting
for hppa to catch up.
--
Martin-Éric Racine
http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
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