Bug#82388: tetex-bin: please upload a new version

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

Paul Slootman writes:
 > Package: tetex-bin
 > Version: 1.0.7+20000807-7
 > 
 > Due to some wierd situation that I don't fully understand,
 > it is not possible to upload 1.0.7+20000807-7 to unstable,
 > as that gets rejected:
 > 
 > Rejected: tetex-bin_1.0.7+20000807-7_alpha.deb Old version `1.0.7+20000807-7' >= new version `1.0.7+20000807-7'.
 > 
 > However, the version in unstable is actually 1.0.7+20000807-5,
 > which means that tetex-bin will never promote to testing (as
 > the version in other architectures are apparently older ?!)
 > 
 > I've discussed this last week with the powers that be, and
 > it would be looked into "soon". For the time being it's
 > "easiest" to simply upload a newer version than is currently in
 > the archives, and then the builds from other architectures can be
 > accepted into the archive.
 > 

There are uptodate binaries for all architectures including alpha on
ftp-master now. 

ls -l /org/ftp.debian.org/ftp/pool/main/t/tetex-bin/*alpha*
-rw-rw-r--    1 troup    debadmin    86370 Dec 23 23:15 /org/ftp.debian.org/ftp/pool/main/t/tetex-bin/libkpathsea-dev_1.0.7+20000807-7_alpha.deb
-rw-rw-r--    1 troup    debadmin    47112 Dec 23 23:14 /org/ftp.debian.org/ftp/pool/main/t/tetex-bin/libkpathsea3_1.0.7+20000807-7_alpha.deb
-rw-rw-r--    1 troup    debadmin  4298788 Dec 23 23:17 /org/ftp.debian.org/ftp/pool/main/t/tetex-bin/tetex-bin_1.0.7+20000807-7_alpha.deb

I built the sparc version three days ago, because I thougth this was
holding the move to testing. But it still not moved in.

The lines in update_excuses say:

tetex-bin 1.0.7+20000807-7 (currently 1.0.6-7) (low) 
         Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org> 
         tetex-bin uploaded 20 days ago, out of date by 30 days! 
         out of date on alpha: tetex-dev, tetex-lib (from 1.0.7+20000807-5) 
         there are up to date bins in alpha also 
         out of date on arm: tetex-dev, tetex-lib (from 1.0.7+20000807-5) 
         there are up to date bins in arm also 
         out of date on i386: tetex-dev, tetex-lib (from 1.0.7+20000807-5) 
         there are up to date bins in i386 also 
         out of date on m68k: tetex-dev, tetex-lib (from 1.0.7+20000807-5) 
         there are up to date bins in m68k also 
         out of date on powerpc: tetex-dev, tetex-lib (from 1.0.7+20000807-5) 
         there are up to date bins in powerpc also 
         out of date on sparc: tetex-dev, tetex-lib (from 1.0.7+20000807-5) 
         there are up to date bins in sparc also 
         not considered 

They don't say what the problem is.

If I would upload a new version now, it would only prolong the time
until tetex-bin goes to testing.

Christoph