Hi Niels, On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:09:44PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > Dear maintainers of libfso-glib and fso-gsmd, > > I have noticed that libfso-glib and fso-gsmd have started a transition > and they seem to have been "left to rot" in unstable. My issue here is > that they are keeping at least 4 RC bug fixes out of testing at the > moment[1]. > > The situation (as far as I can understand it) is that: > > libfso-glib dropped libfso-glib1 in favor of libfso-glib2 Right. API/ABI has changed. > fso-gsmd dropped fso-gsmd-ezx, fso-gsmd-gta04, fso-gsmd-htc > and fso-gsmd-openmoko This is not completly correct. fso-gsmd just dropped useless architectures. These packages were arch any before, but are specific to the arm devices. > According to dak, the binaries removed from fso-gsmd breaks: > > """ > fso-common: fso-gta01 > fso-gta02 > fso-frameworkd: fso-frameworkd-gta01 [armel] > fso-frameworkd-gta02 [armel] > fso-gsmd: fso-gsmd-dbg [armel armhf] > """ > > fso-common is not in testing and AFAICT broken already in sid, so > "breaking it again" shouldn't be a problem atm. So that leaves > fso-gsmd-dbg, fso-frameworkd-gta01 and fso-frameworkd-gta02 as things > that need to be resolved. > > The removal of libfso-glib1 only breaks the binaries being removed from > fso-gsmd, so as soon as the fso-gsmd situation is resolved, the > libfso-glib situation can be resolved as well. > > > So thats the situation. > > > I kindly ask you to resolve this situation within 14 days or I may end > up removing one or more of your packages from testing to reduce the > number of RC bugs in testing. > Once the packages can be decrufted without any adverse affects to > other (non-broken packages), please let us know so we can have the FTP > masters decruft your packages. > > DDs can test the potential adverse effects of decrufts by using dak on > coccia.debian.org, e.g: > > $ dak rm -Rnb fso-gsmd-ezx fso-gsmd-gta04 fso-gsmd-openmoko > > Will tell you the consequences of decrufting fso-gsmd at the moment. I think the correct solution is to remove fso-gsmd-ezx, fso-gsmd-gta04 and fso-gsmd-openmoko only for the unsupported architectures. This should solve the problem. Still supported architectures are: fso-gsmd-ezx => armel fso-gsmd-gta04 => armel, armhf fso-gsmd-openmoko => armel -- Sebastian
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