Re: RC bugs in LSB development packages

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Stuart R. Anderson wrote:
> 
> There are 2 Serious bugs against the LSB dev package that need to be
> resolved. One of them will need a freeze exception to allow a new
> version of the package into testing.
> 
> First the easy one:
> 
> #478180 [lsb-build-cc2] lsb-build-cc2 depends on gcc-3.3, g++-3.3 which
>                         isn't built anymore
> 
> I have filed a bug (though I can't find the bug number right now),
> asking for
> all of the LSB v2 package to be completely removed from everything post
> Etch.
> V2 of the spec has come and been gone long enough that these package are no
> longer needed. The list of package which should be removed is lsb-appchk2,
> lsb-build-base2, and lsb-buildcc2.

Ok, removal bugs filed to be sure they do get removed.

> Now for the one that requires an exception:
> 
> #478174 [lsb-build-cc3] lsb-build-cc3 depends on g++-3.4 which
>                         is not built anymore
> 
> The fix for this is part of the new version from upstream of the LSB tools.
> This package is in unstable now, but this package was removed from testing
> a while back during a sweep of packages that had invalid dependencies.
> It's removal from testing may mean that it is not showing up on some
> lists of bugs that need resolving for Lenny.  It needs an exception to be
> allowed back into testing now.

unblocked.

> Due to a poor choice made almost 10 years ago, the LSB development packages
> are distributed as seperate source bundles, instead of a single source
> bundle. This means that the rest of the packages that should be updated
> at the
> same time as lsb-build-cc3 are in fact seperate packages instead of being
> multiple binary package from a single source package.

Ok, should probably be fixed for squeeze.

> The complete list of related packages, which need an exception to go
> into testing/lenny is lsb-appchk3, lsb-build-base3, lsb-build-cc3, and
> lsb-pkgchk3.

unblocked and removal bugs filed for the not anymore supported
architectures. Please request updates in Packages-arch-specific for
lsb-appchk3 and lsb-pkgchk3.

Cheers

Luk