On 2015-08-24 13:58, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Montag, den 24.08.2015, 13:55 +0200 schrieb Emilio Pozuelo Monfort:
>> On 24/08/15 13:37, Joachim Breitner wrote:
>>> from my understanding, the current Haskell packages in unstable
>>> should
>>> be able to migrate to testing. At least my binNMU tool¹ does not
>>> indicate any errors on release architectures, and the release tracker²
>>> only shows what I believe are false negatives.
>>>
>>> Nevertheless, none of the hints created by the autohinter is accepted
>>> by britney:
>>> https://release.debian.org/britney/update_output.txt
>>>
>>> Are there some problems left that I am not aware of? Or is the auto
>>> -hinter incomplete in this case? It does take removals into account
>>> these days, does it?
It has two auto-hinters. The "Partial (Ordering)" auto-hinter can
include removals - the other ("Original") does not.
>>
>> There needs to be a remove hint for it to take removals into account. Do any
>> packages need to be removed from testing? If so let us know which ones and we
>> can add a hint for them.
>
> is that true even for packages that have been removed in unstable?
>
It needs to be flagged for removal - either by a removal hint OR by the
package being removed from unstable.
> From the top of my head, there is haskell-src-exts on mips and mipsel,
> together with reverse dependencies (haskel-hoogle, hlint, hothasktags).
>
> Greetings,
> Joachim
>
>
Mind you, some of the haskell packages are waiting for "icu", which is
waiting for gcc-5. Examples include "haskell-blogliterately/amd64"[1]
and "haskell-text-icu/amd64"[2].
I am not sure this is good...
Thanks,
~Niels
[1]
https://release.debian.org/britney/update_excuses.html#haskell-blogliterately/amd64
[2]
https://release.debian.org/britney/update_excuses.html#haskell-text-icu/amd64
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