Re: Coordinating to let some TeX-related packages in: texlive-bin
Hi Andreas, hi Release Team!
On Mon, 18 Dez 2006, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Norbert Preining (preining@logic.at) [061218 02:07]:
> > There is something going on which I do not understand: the execuses page
> > texlive-bin tells me that it is waiting for libpng, but this one is in
> > freeze. And indeed, it has a dependency on libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.15~beta5).
> > But this dependency is somehow only theoretically as it was
> > autogenerated.
> >
> > But since I have to build the binary debs before upload in a sid
> > environment, what is the correct procedure now:
> > - Rebuild the texlive-bin based binary deps in a sarge environment, and
> > reupload? But this will not work for other archs than the one I
> > upload, as the autobuilders will use sid (I assume).
> > - ignore
>
> Ignore. The release team will take care of any package depending on
> libpng, once we know which png-solution we want to see in testing.
It seems that the unblock flag was somehow cleared in the course of
libpng resolution, as now the excuses page for texlive-bin again gives
Not touching package, as requested by freeze (contact
debian-release if update is needed)
Before this there was a unfreeze flag for 2005.dfsg.2-7
Thanks a lot and all the best, and for those celebrating it, merry
Christmas!
Norbert
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Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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