Re: sarge planning: interdependent packages
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 20:02, Steve Langasek wrote:
> - Installing the new version of heimdal in testing breaks the version of
> postgresql currently in testing. The version of postgresql in
> unstable no longer depends on heimdal (it uses MIT Kerberos instead),
> so it doesn't have to go in at the same time as the above three
> packages -- it can go in before them, when it's ready.
>
> - Postgresql is currently not ready, because it's held up by perl.
> There are two outstanding bugs on perl due to unexpected ABI breakage
> in perl 5.8.1. The perl maintainers are working on reverting this
> breakage, and I would estimate 2-3 weeks for the fix to reach the
> archive (and 2 days after that to reach testing). Interested parties
> can find the discussion on debian-perl@lists.debian.org if you would
> like to lend a hand with the package preparation/testing.
> Please consider this an invitation to a mini-freeze for these packages,
If I rightly understand this, postgresql must go into testing before
heimdal. Postgresql is held up by perl so I have some leeway, but I
shouldn't make an upload that is likely to keep things waiting beyond
the 16 to 23 days that it will take perl to go in.
Is that correct?
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