Bug#837312: nmu: cdist_4.3.1-1

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Hi,

Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 03:03:42PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > cdist-doc depends on "sphinx-common (<< 1.4.5.0~), sphinx-common (>=
> > 1.4.5)". This causes the following issues:
> > 
> > * It's uninstallable in unstable
> > * sphinx doesn't migrate to testing[0]
> > 
> > Rebuilding against sphinx 1.4.6-1 inside a clean chroot
> > (e.g. pbuilder) helps[1]. So please schedule a BinNMU on architecture
> > "all" for cdist:
> > 
> > nmu cdist_4.3.1-1 . all . unstable . -m "Rebuild documentation against sphinx 1.4.6"
[…]
> You need to ask for a full upload, perhaps by means of a RC bug (given
> that it's blocking other stuff, and it is uninstallable)

*sigh* I'd reopened and reassiged it if I were you. Not doing that now
myself because there is also a sponsorship request for cdist at
https://bugs.debian.org/837319 which will solve this anyways.

Dmitry: Will have a look at #837319. :-)

> While on it I'd investigate why it has such particular needs of a so
> weird depdency.

That's something the sphinx maintainers should have a look at it as
they seem to have decided that it's needed, otherwise they probably
wouldn't have made the effort to implement it.

Since not every sphinx reverse dependency which uses
${sphinxdoc:Depends} (about 527 source packages in unstable according
to [1]) seems to have that rather strict dependency (thanks to Mattia
for pointing that out on IRC :-), I wonder what makes cdist's package
build causing that strict dependency.

		Regards, Axel
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