Re: torcs and torcs-data-*
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 06:18:21AM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-07-22 at 23:58 -0500, Rudy Godoy wrote:
> > Hello, past May torcs-data (1.3.1) was removed from testing
> > automatically. This could probably happened due one RC bug
> > sitting on BTS.
>
> No, it was removed because it no longer produced any binaries
> (specifically they've all been taken over by other source packages).
> This can be seen by the excuses listing:
>
> * torcs-data has no binaries on any arch
>
> > Since then I've been reworking the packaging bit and improving
> > them. By now there's a new upstream version of torcs (1.3.3),
> > binaries, already in sid. However the corresponding -data-*
> > packages have never entered testing again.
>
> The source packages haven't, no, but the binaries are now produced by
> the "torcs" source package. As the package maintainer, I'd expect that
> you'd know this. :-)
>
Yes, that was part of the packaging changes I've mentioned.
> > So, I ask for allowing torcs-data, torcs-data-tracks and
> > torcs-data-cars to enter testing, thus being part of
> > wheezy.
> >
> > Changes from 1.3.1 to 1.3.3 include few build bugs and
> > upstream including our patches.
>
> $ dak ls -s testing torcs-data-{cars,tracks}
> torcs-data-cars | 1.3.3-4 | testing | all
> torcs-data-tracks | 1.3.3-4 | testing | all
>
> I'm not sure what you believe needs doing here.
>
That's interesting because PTS and the developer QA page
shows differently. Maybe those programs believe the source
package is still torcs-data itself.
So, in that case I'd like you to let pass rev. 6 (1.3.3-6)
packages from sid.
Thank you.
--
Rudy Godoy
http://stone-head.org
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