Re: noweb stuck in sid

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Hubert Chathi [Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:14:17 -0400]:

> On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:27:57 +0100 Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
> wrote:

> > * Hubert Chathi [Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:35:20 -0400]:

> > > How is that?  noweb just depends on gawk, iconx, and libc6, and the
> > > dependency on iconx is unversioned, so shouldn't it be satisfied
> > > with the version of icon that's in testing?

> > There is no noweb in armel in testing, though, so in order to migrate
> > noweb/2.11b-7/armel, britney wants to migrate iconx/9.4.3-1/armel
> > first. And see #475952 about that...

> > However, since noweb/armel is broken in testing anyway, migrating it
> > does not makes things worse, so I've added a force hint to let noweb
> > migrate.

> OK, thanks.  The main reason that I was asking is that noweb in sid
> fixes a bashism, which is a release goal.  None of the other changes is
> particularly important.

I see. I'm afraid I wasn't aware that the normal hint for these cases
is not able to force it through after all, so it'll have to wait for
icon.

If it was RC, I would go a bit out of my way to force it in, but I
rather not to that at this stage.

Cheers,

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