Bug#798280: transition: mono
On 30/11/15 18:56, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 27/11/15 17:54, Jo Shields wrote:
>> I think this is close to startable, if a transition slot will be available soon.
>>
>> Of the 17 "bad" packages on the release tracker, 2 FTBFS for other reasons (and
>> are removed from Testing anyway). 3 are in DELAYED and should land this weekend.
>> 2 are waiting on another DELAYED upload to land this weekend, which should make
>> them RMable. 1 is in binary NEW, 2 are blocking on a package in NEW. The rest
>> already have RM bugs against ftp.debian.org.
>
> Can you make those bugs block this?
Assuming I didn't fuck it up, done.
>> In terms of *actual* work remaining, fsharp needs a new upstream release
>> uploading (which is only awkward due to the need to +dfsg it), and xsp needs
>> some upstream work to tag/ship a compatible version (i.e. remove the attempt to
>> build the old ABI entirely), both of which I can deal with on Monday.
>
> Good.
I've uploaded a compatible transition-friendly release of xsp to
experimental, it seems to be doing okay on buildd.debian.org
>> The only slight wrinkle in the transition is the removal of powerpc as an
>> architecture, requiring some massaging of the archive before transitioning would
>> be possible.
>
> It'd be good to get that done before the transition starts. Can you ask the ftp
> team to do that?
Can I do that without doing a sourceful upload with powerpc removed from
the arch list? It was my understanding that the package would end up
getting rebuilt on that arch
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