Re: arch disparity and freeze

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:47:05PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>> If it's out of date, that will keep it out of testing.
>
>what does "out of date" mean in this contest?

It means that the most recent source version (in unstable) has not been
built for all architectures in testing, so update_excuses.html will say
"out of date on <arch>".

Some architectures are temporarily exempted from this check because they
aren't keeping up in general. If your package hasn't been built for one
of those, then the testing scripts will try to install it, but if it
turns out to be uninstallable on some architecture(s) then that will
still keep it out of testing regardless of whether the architecture was
exempt from the previous check (which mainly affects rearranging
dependencies among groups of packages, or tightening shared library
dependencies).

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]