Unjamming the botan transition

[Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>]

I'm trying to figure out why the renamed botan library packages and
their dependencies (monotone and keysafe) have not made it into
testing, despite everything being a "Valid candidate".  The most
recent update_output.txt (Generated on: 2009.08.25 10:44:55 +0000)
just says

Trying hint from luk: botan1.8/1.8.5-5 -botan-devel/1.8.1-1
monotone/0.44-2 keysafe/0.4-1.1
leading: botan1.8,-botan-devel,monotone,keysafe
failed: botan1.8

but yesterday's (Generated on: 2009.08.24 22:34:02 +0000) has
marginally more information:

Trying hint from luk: botan1.8/1.8.5-5 -botan-devel/1.8.1-1
monotone/0.44-2 keysafe/0.4-1.1
leading: botan1.8,-botan-devel,monotone,keysafe
start: 139+2497: i-27:a-9:a-23:a-11:h-20:i-12:m-8:m-8:p-4:s-9:s-8:k-1270:k-1227
orig: 139+2497: i-27:a-9:a-23:a-11:h-20:i-12:m-8:m-8:p-4:s-9:s-8:k-1270:k-1227
recur: [] botan1.8,-botan-devel,monotone,keysafe 696/0
...
 finish: [botan1.8,-botan-devel,monotone,keysafe]
endloop: 139+2497:
i-27:a-9:a-23:a-11:h-20:i-12:m-8:m-8:p-4:s-9:s-8:k-1270:k-1227
    now: 139+2499:
i-27:a-9:a-23:a-11:h-20:i-12:m-8:m-8:p-4:s-9:s-8:k-1271:k-1228
    * kfreebsd-amd64: keysafe
    * kfreebsd-i386: keysafe
Apparently successful

Despite this being *labeled* a success, packages did not move, and I
think the problem is keysafe becoming uninstallable on
kfreebsd-{amd64,i386}.  If so, perhaps binNMUs of that package on
those architectures would help?

The only other thing that might be going on is, is it source or binary
packages that are mentioned in hint files?  I see things like this in
the older update_output.txt ...

trying: botan1.8
skipped: botan1.8 (1 <- 210)
    got: 28+0: i-28
    * i386: botan-devel-dbg
trying: -botan-devel
skipped: -botan-devel (7 <- 149)
    got: 31+0: i-31
    * i386: keysafe, monotone, monotone-doc, monotone-server

which are clearly talking about binary packages, but the hints seem to
be written assuming source packages.

Thanks for any help.
zw

p.s. For reference, these are the relevant lines in the current set of
hint files:

adeodato:block keysafe
adeodato:block monotone
luk:hint botan1.8/1.8.5-5 -botan-devel/1.8.1-1 monotone/0.44-2 keysafe/0.4-1.1
neilm:unblock monotone/0.44-2
neilm:remove botan-devel/1.8.1-1
neilm:hint monotone/0.44-2

of which I *think* only luk's is actually doing anything at this point.