Re: Qestions to "Why is package X not in testing yet?"

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:

> 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.

Ahh, after checking i386, mips and mipsel (the other two big backlog
archs) I stoped checking. On m68k inn2 also depends on
perlapi-5.8.3. Thanks for noticing that.

So there is no magic version checking on top of
Depends/Conflicts/.. then, right?

MfG
        Goswin