On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 12:31:05AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I asked Bjorn Stenberg about why inn2 is waiting on perl (see mail > below) and he suggested that maybe the sarge testing script would > ensure, that the version of perl used during building would enter > sarge before/with inn2. He wasn't sure though and suggested I check > here to confirm what is realy happening. > Is he right or is something else going on? Something else is almost certainly going on. At a guess, one or more of the architectures that have been backlogged recently built inn2 after perl 5.8.3 was in the archive, resulting in an arch-specific dependency bump to libperl5.8 (>= 5.8.3). Looks like this is the case on m68k at least; there may be others. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer > PS: please CC me on all replies since I'm not on the list. > X-From-Line: nobody Sat Feb 21 23:39:04 2004 > To: Bjorn Stenberg <bjorn@haxx.se> > Subject: Qestions to "Why is package X not in testing yet?" > From: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> > Date: 21 Feb 2004 23:39:04 +0100 > Xref: dual sent-mail-2004-02:292 > > Hi, > > I am wondering how the update-excuses script comes to the conclusion > that inn2 (as an example of a bunch of them) is waiting for perl. > > Looking at the "Why is package X not in testing yet?" page for inn2 > > http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=inn2;printalldeps=1 > > I see no reason why a newer perl than sarge is needed: > > | # info: inn2 depends on perl (ok, testing has version 5.8.2-2) > | # inn2 depends on perlapi-5.8.2, provided by: perl-base > | o info: perl-base has version 5.8.2-2 in testing > > Looking at the inn2 Depends I also see no clue why perl is blocking > it. > > | Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libdb4.1, libperl5.8 (>= 5.8.2), debconf (>= 0.5), inn2-inews (>= 2.3.999+20030227-1), cron, exim4 | mail-transport-agent, time, procps, perl, perlapi-5.8.2 > > libperl5.8, perl and perlapi-5.8.2 are available in sarge. > > > Can you shed any more light on this? > > Thanks in advance and for your pages, they are very helpfull.
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