Bug#761816: RM: libgdal-grass/1.10.1-2

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On 2014-09-16 10:18, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
> The grass package was updated to 6.4.4-1 in unstable, which required an
> update for libgdal-grass (1.10.1-3 available in unstable).
>
> Currently both grass (6.4.4-1) and libgdal-grass (1.10.1-3) cannot
> migrate to testing because updating grass in testing whould make
> libgdal1-1.10.1-grass uninstallable. See:
>
> https://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=libgdal1-1.10.1-grass
>
> By explicitly removing the libgdal1-1.10.1-grass revision that still
> depends on GRASS 6.4.3 from testing, the updated revisions of grass and
> libgdal-grass in unstable should be able to migrate to testing.

No, that's illogical. It doesn't make sense to remove a package from 
testing as an attempt to have a newer version of the same package 
migrate from unstable. Instead, one should work out how to make the 
migration of the new version succeed.

The underlying issue is that the two packages (grass and libgdal-grass) 
need to migrate to testing at the same time. The testing.pl script is a 
little stupid and only looks at the result of britney trying each source 
package separately. The migration of both packages at the same time is 
in fact being attempted, but failing. From the logs:

I: [Mon Sep 15 22:06:02 2014] - > Processing 'easy' hint from autohinter
Trying easy from autohinter: grass/6.4.4-1 libgdal-grass/1.10.1-3
leading: grass,libgdal-grass
start: 12+25065: i-7:a-1:a-0:a-0:k-1:k-1:m-0:m-0:p-0:s-2:a-10122:p-14943
orig: 12+25065: i-7:a-1:a-0:a-0:k-1:k-1:m-0:m-0:p-0:s-2:a-10122:p-14943
easy: 13+25069: i-7:a-1:a-0:a-0:k-1:k-1:m-1:m-0:p-0:s-2:a-10122:p-14947
    * mips: libgdal1-1.10.1-grass
    * ppc64el: grass-core, grass-dev, grass-gui, libgdal1-1.10.1-grass

The ppc64el issue isn't a blocker, but mips is. The issue on mips is 
that libgdal1-1.10.1-grass was built against the old version of grass - 
libgdal-grass was uploaded 8 days ago but the new version of grass only 
built on mips 3 days ago.

I've scheduled a binNMU for libgdal-grass on mips which should resolve 
this.

Regards,

Adam