On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:32:09AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> [2005-10-05 01:28]: > > > octave-gpc needs a requeue (and I think that's all) on alpha and > > > mips, as it couldn't find libgpcl-dev and that package now appears to > > > be available. I'm not sure what's going on with it on ia64; it > > > installs libgpcl-dev and then can't find the header file from that > > > package. Maybe (he says hopefully) a rebuild will help there too? > > > Should I mail the arch addresses @buildd.debian.org about those two > > > requeues? > > Actually, libgpcl-dev has been in the archive for alpha and mips, at > > the same version, since before sarge's release. I think the issue is > > simply that the autobuilders aren't configured to draw > > build-dependencies from non-free; I've just checked with Ryan Murray, > > and he confirms this is a policy decision, not a bug. So someone will > > have to hand-build octave-gpc on alpha and mips (and possibly the > > others). > Would it help if octave-gpc goes into non-free? Not particularly; non-free doesn't get autobuilt any more reliably than contrib does. There are unofficial autobuilders available for non-free in particular, but I don't know of any policy that would prevent them also building contrib packages. Anyway, a bigger issue is that libgpcl-dev is broken on alpha and ia64; bug filed about that. > BTW, is there anything in the Policy that prevents a package in contrib to > build-depend on a package in non-free? Nope, just practical considerations that prevent this from working today on the buildds. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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