On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:59:41PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:49:40PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > ==> remove iraf/2.11.3-2 > > > > #223543: FTBFS -- requires a bootstrap process which doesn't autobuild > > #223532: Major FHS violation -- files under /usr/iraf > > #218793: ships /usr/bin/xpp, conflicting with xpp package (with no Conflicts, > > even). > > > > Oh, it also has installation errors (#223528), dangling symlinks (#138086), > > and bad dependencies (#168867). > > > > The maintainer is supposedly working on these issues with someone who > > he "hopes" will become the future maintainer. As of December. God > > only knows when that will happen. > > > > The current version just isn't releasable; it needs to be removed from > > sarge. > > This does indeed seem to be the case. I've marked iraf (and necessarily > iraf-noaobin too) to be removed from testing; it'll have a chance to > return if its release-critical bugs are fixed soon. Go ahead and yank it. It needs to be repackaged from scratch at this point, and the person who I was working with on it hasn't sent me anything about it for quite some time. I don't have time right now to do a complete rebuild. I'll resubmit it in the summer if I work it out. -- Zed Pobre <zed@debian.org> a.k.a. Zed Pobre <zed@resonant.org> PGP key and fingerprint available on finger; encrypted mail welcomed.
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