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Re: Bug#736808: nmu: github-backup_1.20131203



On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 23:01:48 +0000, Joachim Breitner wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> moving this to the list, as I assume it was not meant personally. 
> 
> Am Sonntag, den 26.01.2014, 23:45 +0100 schrieb Julien Cristau:
> > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 21:28:37 +0000, James Cowgill wrote:
> > 
> > > Package: release.debian.org
> > > Severity: normal
> > > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> > > Usertags: binnmu
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > github-backup is still compiled against libicu48 on some architetures
> > > 
> > >   nmu github-backup_1.20131203 . amd64 i386 powerpc sparc . -m "rebuild against libicu52"
> > > 
> > Cc+=nomeata.
> > 
> > Joachim, it would be helpful if haskell packages didn't take months to
> > move from unstable to testing.  Can we do something to avoid this?
> 
> my hope lies in PPAs; once we have them I plan to only upload complete
> set of consistent Haskell packages to unstable.
> 
I'd rather not hold my breath on that.

> But at the moment, I believe all haskell packages are able to migrate,
> modulo some remaining removals by the ftp team, see
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/2014/01/msg00013.html
> for a mostly up-to-date list of open issues.
> 
> Oh, and since you are asking for way to improve the situation: I don’t
> have a good way of fining out the blockers for haskell. E.g.
> https://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=haskell-github
> is very unhelpful, and so is
> https://release.debian.org/britney/update_output.txt. But then, the
> question I want to be answered by these tools is quite tricky, as it
> involves determining the set of involved packages, and then finding out
> the blockers for the whole set.
> 
> 
> But how does that relate to github-backup? It is a program, not a
> library, and thus has no difficult dependencies into the Haskell world.
> I believe you just have to issue the binNMUs and tomorrow the
> github-backup line in
> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/icu52.html will be green.
> 
Well, not directly with github-backup, but I've been waiting for
haskell-text-icu to migrate for a while with no idea what's going on...

Cheers,
Julien

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