Re: lablgtk2 and misbehaved hppa/ia64 autobuilders.

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

Oh, it seems hppa@buildd.debian.org is the canonical address, CCing there.

Hi hppa buildd maintainers. We have a problem with the ocaml packages on hppa,
since the buildd infrastructure is broken and don't handles virtual packages
dependencies all to well. Could you retrigger the build of the below packages ?

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:54:49AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> We are going for the ocaml 3.08.3 transition. I made a mistake, and uploaded
> lablgtk2 when lablgl was built but not yet installed, and as thus the lablgtk2
> build as stalled, as well as all the builds depending on it which we have not
> yet uploaded. It seems that the ia64 solution got solved, and may have been
> only a signing issue, or something, in any case it was installed on march 29.
> 
> The hppa problem is that actually 4 packages are wrongly wait-dep'ing on
> ocaml-3.08.3 and ocaml-nox-3.08.3, which are provided packages by ocaml
> 3.08.3, and a known limitation of our buildd architecture, which is why i we
> planned to do a staged upload, where each package would be uploaded only when
> all dependencies where built on all arches. Guess built was not enough, but
> installed was the one needed.
> 
> You can see the dependency graph listed on : 
> 
>   http://pkg-ocaml-maint.alioth.debian.org/
> 
> either the .png version or the textual version, and see the hppa problem on :
> 
>   http://lucifer.0c3.net/~buildd/hppa_Dep-Wait.html
> 
> the waiting packages :
> 
>   ocaml-3.08.3  [_ []]
>     lablgtk_1.2.7-3  [buildd_hppa-sarti]
>     lablgtk2_2.4.0+2005.02.18-1  [buildd_hppa-sarti]
> 
> 
>   ocaml-nox-3.08  [_ []]
>     ocaml-http_0.1.0-2  [buildd_hppa-sarti]
>     ocurl_0.2.0-2  [buildd_hppa-sarti]
> 
> I sent mail to debian-hppa on sunday or saturday, but to no effect yet, so my
> guess was to just forget about hppa for now, and continue uploading the other
> packages in a staged way, since it is more important to get testing (altough
> there where very little suprises so far) than having it built on hppa for now.

Friendly,

Sven Luther