Re: Status of the netcdf transition

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Francesco Paolo Lovergine writes:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:21:59AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > The netcdf transition 3.5.0-7.1 -> 3.6.0+3.6.1-beta3-0.1 seems to be
> > blocking a lot of packages from entering testing.  Is someone taking care
> > of it?  Is there a status report available somewhere?
> > 
> 
> RMs already hinted it. Unfortunately the new package missed a
> compatibility package (it changed name) so it breaks as many packages as it allows
> entering testing. The (new) maintainer said it is preparing a new upload
> to reintroduce the missing package.

so how do you assure, that a partial upgrade is still possible with
this "missing" package.

> The only other solutions is rebuilding all
> dependants which would be removed from testing...

AFAICS that the only correct solution.

  Matthias