Re: Request for transition: evolution-data-server

["Øystein Gisnås" <oystein@gisnas.net>]

On 10/08/06, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 03:27:19PM +0200, Øystein Gisnås wrote:
> > The new upstream version of evolution-data-server, 2.6.3, creates a
> > library package with soname change. libegroupwise1.2-10 is replaced by
> > libegroupwise1.2-12. The only rdepends outside of the source package
> > is evolution, which is binNMU safe.
>
> > We also plan an upload of evolution shortly, but rather want to wait
> > until after evolution-data-server is built on all archs to get around
> > dep-wait not working properly. This is a request for permission to
> > start the transition. Please advise if e-d-s and evolution should
> > rather be uploaded at the same time.
>
> Could you explain what you mean by "dep-wait not working properly"?

I rather mean that auto-dep-wait does not work with dependencies that
have just been uploaded. And when maintainers don't have access to set
dep-wait status, I call it broken.

-Øystein Gisnås