Transition status
Hi,
It seemed a good idea to have this all written down in a single place,
rather than just in my / other people's heads.
Apologies for the slightly brain-dumpy nature. Updates, additions,
corrections, etc, welcome.
Ongoing transitions
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* boost
boost-defaults has transitioned and packages depending on boost1.40
are gradually being binNMUed.
* directfb + celt
"The transition that never wants to end". The current issue here is
the j-a-c-k FTBFS.
* evince + totem-pl-parser
Just started.
* kde
Uploading KDE 4.4 to unstable.
* netcdf
Partly done due to normal unstable churn and binNMUs for other reasons
(e.g. unixodbc).
vtk is an r-dep, so we either need to get the vtk transition out of the
way first, or tie the transitions together.
* python
Need to schedule the switch to 2.6 as the default version.
* unixodbc
Tied to netcdf via gdal and mapserver.
* vtk
Involves a number of C++ packages which are ftbfs for various reasons.
Not yet scheduled transitions
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* apt
aptitude FTBFS on s390; needs fixing first.
* evolution
Clashes with icu.
* icu
Involves boost1.4[02], evolution and openoffice.org. Do we want to be
rebuilding boost in the middle of KDE?
* libwpd*8c2a -> libwpd*-0.8-8
Involves kword and openoffice.org.
* mpi-defaults
Some packages ftbfs with mpich2; being worked on.
* opal / ptlib
Looks self contained, but opal is part of directfb + celt (the unstable
package no longer depends on celt, but the package in testing does).
We either leave opal / ptlib until after directfb + celt is sorted, or
add another transition to that set.
* xapian
Affects many of the same packages as the apt transition.
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