Re: Bug#562318: collatinus: FTBFS: ! LaTeX Error: File `ucs.sty' not found.
On 03/01/10 at 17:40 +0000, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 18:30:46 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
>
> > On So, 03 Jan 2010, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > > It might have been a good idea to announce the change and explain the
> > > possible impact before doing it, and maybe do an archive test build
> >
> > The packages have been in experimental for some time.
>
> That's irrelevant...
> >
> > And no, we didn't do an archive test build, my laptop is to small for that
> > and that is the *ONLY* developing machine for texlive.
>
> I'm not suggesting doing that on your laptop. There have been archive
> test builds for new gcc versions and countless other things in the past,
> I asked for one before the last libx11 upload, etc. It's not more work
> for you to ask for this, and it means you have an idea about the impact
> of your changes on the rest of the archive, which means you and others
> can be better prepared for the change when it happens.
>
> > > before uploading the new packages then, instead of making an unknown
> > > number of packages unbuildable without warning… Oh well, maybe next
> > > time.
> >
> > I know that this is bad, but that is SID about. How many times
> > *our* packages stopped with FTBFS due to some poppler switch I don't
> > want to recount to you. That is life, and it is sid, so nothing to
> > complain.
> >
> Yes, actually, something to complain. Your packages have a lot of
> reverse build dependencies, which means you are responsible for
> communicating with those package maintainers when planning disruptive
> changes. Nothing new there, and because some other packages caused
> disruption in the past doesn't mean you have to do the same.
Lots of packages break the archive because of transitions on
a regular basis. More communication from the texlive maintainers would
have been nice, as well as more coordinated actions during the bug
filing. But asking for archive rebuilds before each major transition is
just too much.
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