Re: packages stalld in t-p-u by missing builds

[Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>]

At Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:45:56 -0700,
Steve Langasek wrote:
> >   aptitude | 0.2.15.6-0.sarge5 | testing-proposed-updates | source, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
> > 	Missing alpha and mips builds, this version of aptitude fixs
> > 	installation of standard packages on new installs, and fixes
> > 	a bug that made tasks not work at all in some locales (#264716).
> > 	It's a blocking item for the next d-i release.
> 
> > 	This was uploaded a full month ago.
> 
> > 	IMHO, if we can't get a build in t-p-u, it would be better to
> > 	copy 0.2.15.6-1 from unstable, which is built on all arches already.
> > 	The changes between 0.2.15.6-0.sarge5 and 0.2.15.6-1 are fairly
> > 	small and have not broken anything over the past 5 weeks since
> > 	it was released.
> 
> Actually, the diff between testing and t-p-u for aptitude is large
> enough that I'm not really willing to approve it via t-p-u anyway.  The
> package in unstable, having been hammered on a bit, is ok assuming the
> maintainer agrees that this version is suitable for sarge.  The diff
> seems to indicate that the translations aren't as up-to-date in sid as
> they are in sarge, though.  Daniel?

And I found aptitude in unstable version 0.2.15.6-1 doesn't include
#264716 fix.

Thanks,
-- 
Kenshi Muto
kmuto@debian.org