Re: unblock request: krb5

[Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@iki.fi>]

2009/7/6 Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 03:19:18PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Would it be possible to unblock krb5 and allow it to transit to
>> Testing?  We need CUPS 1.3.10-5 to go into Testing ASAP to compensate
>> for changes in dependencies resulting from the recent repackaging of
>> necessary Ghostcript's PPD components into a separate ghostscript-cups
>> package.
>>
>> This new GS package's introduction has generate a lot of bug reports
>> from people whose printer requires raster support that was previously
>> provided by the main ghostscript package and is now provided by
>> ghostscript-cups instead, simply because the components they need are
>> not a dependency of the 1.3.10-2 that is currently sitting in Testing,
>> which momentarily broke support for their printer.
>>
>> Allowing 1.3.10-5 into Testing fixes this issue, but this is dependent
>> upon krb5 being allowed into Testing first.
>>
>> Please don't hesitate in contacting me if you have any additional
>> question about this request.
>
> krb5 transition is almost done, as you can see at
>
> https://buildd.debian.org/transitions/summary.html
>
> with only 3 problematic packages remaining. We attempted to resolve them
> over the weekend, with partial success. Once they are fixed, krb5 will
> propagate to testing.

Thanks for the explanation on the current situation.

Best Regards,
Martin-Éric