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Re: Hinting suggestions, latest edition



On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 11:07:12AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Renders all previous editions obsolete.  ;-)

> ==> remove ida/0.12
> ==> easy libpcd/1.0.1 fbi/1.28
> ==> easy openmotif/2.2.2-6 motv/3.88-1
> ida is the linchpin which makes this such a mess.  It's also a contrib extra
> package, and version 0.12 is two years out of date.

> The other four have been held up for waaaay too long by a complex
> web of dependencies, and if you wait, they'll probably get enmeshed in more
> dependencies. :-P

> Once they're cleared up, new ida (0.20) can go in as soon as new curl does
> (which needs 10 days and builds).

> ==> remove encompass/0.4.99.30-5
> Allows neon & subversion in.  There's a new encompass already, but
> it has to wait for gtkhtml3.0 -- breaking the link is worthwhile.

I've added hints for the above.

> ==> easy petsc/2.1.6-2 illuminator/0.6.9-2
> The maintainer is really frustrated that these aren't in yet, after all
> his hard work.  And they do need to go in together, not one at a time.

> According to bjorn.haxx.se, illuminator is out of date on mipsel.  But
> it's already built there (on Monday), and is apparently just waiting for
> some buildd person to upload the file.  :-P

I've added this to my queue so it can be revisited once the mipsel build
is uploaded.

I'll try to look through the rest of the below today.

> ==> remove iraf/2.11.3-2
> See previous messages -- you might already have done this.

> ==> remove libhydrogen/0.8.0-4
> Junichi Uekawa wrote "this package is going to be removed".  I don't know
> if he meant from testing or from testing & unstable, but it certainly wouldn't
> hurt the process to remove it from testing.
> 
> ==> easy sip-qt3/3.8-2 python-qt3/3.8-3 qscinitilla/1.2-4
> These need to go in together.
> 
> (This presumably won't work until qt-x11-free/3:3.2.3-2 goes in
> -- see below)
> 
> ==> wait for qt-x11-free/3:2.3-2 to go in
> It currently needs
> * two days
> * a build on mipsel (it's second in the needs-build queue)
> * an upload on arm (it's built but not uploaded, it seems?...)
> 
> ==> somehow, complete jack-audio-connection kit 0.94 transition
> Ow.
> This requires:
> * the removal of libhydrogen
> * builds of a *lot* of packages
> * waiting for new curl to go in (10 days & builds)
> * some complex hint which isn't worth worrying about until the above happens

> KDE depends on this mess (via alsa-lib), sadly.  :-(

> Hopefully thanks to Junichi's freeze there will be no new uploads of
> anything in this mess (except to fix build failures or RC bugs)
> until kdemultimedia gets in. :-)

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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