Re: sarge planning: interdependent packages

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:06:10AM +0000, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> wrote:
>>>  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).
 
>> These rc-bugs have been fixed with monday's upload. It just has not
>> built yet on m68k (looks like the autobuilder was shut down) and mips.
 
> I was under the impression that the mips msq problems in glibc which
> block perl building there weren't yet entirely fixed, or at the very
> least were only fixed in experimental.

I was not aware of this problem at all, I just browse perl's BTS
regularily to check whether it still blocks exim4, and the latest upload
closed all three existing rc-bugs. (All three were about the binary
incompability issue.)

Yes you are right, #200215 is still not resolved, but the 
mips-autobuild failed much earlier.
                 cu andreas