Re: blocked migration from unstable to testing: old binaries left
Hello Niels and all:
As the last package of ovito, which does not depends on tachyon any more,
has reached testing, I think that the tachyon package can now migrate to testing:
how can we unblock its migration ?
Thanks,
Jerome
On 19/06/15 08:07, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On 2015-06-19 02:48, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> thanks for your prompt reply.
>>
>> On 18/06/15 14:55, Paul Wise wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>>>
>>>> what am I supposed to do for unblocking ?
>>>
>>> You started a (minor) transition without involving the release team,
>>> please read this:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions
>>>
>>> According to the cruft report, the old binaries can't be removed
>>> because ovito build-depends on libtachyon-dev. You'll need to convince
>>> the ovito maintainers to switch to the new tachyon dev packages.
>>>
>>> https://ftp-master.debian.org/cruft-report-daily.txt
>>>
>>
>> Will a dummy libtachyon-dev package solve the problem ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jerome
>>
>>
>
> Yes, provided it depends on the correct -dev packages. Though it might
> have to go through NEW at this point.
>
> At this junction, it /may/ be easier to just update ovito as it is the
> only affected reverse dependency.
>
> ~Niels
>
>
>
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