Re: Bug#739069: wheezy-pu: package sage-extension/1.5.2-1~deb7u1

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> schrieb:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
> Apologies for the delays in getting back to this.
>
> On Sat, 2014-02-15 at 17:53 +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
>> The version of sage-extension currently in wheezy does not work against
>> iceweasel 24 (in stable-security), see #738678.
>> 
>> The new upstream versions work fine with iceweasel 24, but there seems to be no
>> easy way of backporting a simple fix to the wheezy package.
> [...]
>> Note that the new version does not work with iceweasel 17, and this is
>> reflected in package dependencies.
>
> As with firebug, the issue I have here is that due to FTBFS on a few
> architectures, stable is still likely to have iceweasel 17 after the
> next point release.

I've just written to debian-mips and debian-ia64 to ask for porter's help
in fixing these. 

> Thus we either have to assume that most users have already upgraded to
> 24 from security and that the extension packages are most likely not
> used on the missing architectures (ia64 and mips*), 

If there's no reaction soon I recommend to follow this path.

Cheers,
        Moritz