Re: Upload of TeX Info 7.0.x to unstable?
Am 25.01.2023 um 22:08 teilte Sebastian Ramacher mit:
On 2023-01-24 09:23:26 +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
Dear release managers,
TeX Info version 7.0 was released last year at beginning of November and
was uploaded to experimental. We got a few bug reports, which were
addressed by upstream authors promptly.
Since then two bugfix releases appeared (currently 7.0.2) and we could
think about uploading to unstable. According to [1] we are neither in
the tool chain nor would this be a transition. Nevertheless we know that
a few(?) packages use makeinfo and texi2* to convert documents, so
uploading could cause breakage and FTBFS bugs when building docs.
Did you perform a test rebuild of the reverse build dependencies? That
would make it every easy to answer the question whether its safe or not.
I got a response from Lucas:
<snip>
At http://qa-logs.debian.net/2023/01/31/ you will find build logs for
packages:
1) currently in testing
2) that failed with the new texinfo but succeeded in vanilla unstable
In addition to those, octave's build hang but I don't have the build
log, so this would need to be retried.
</snip>
This is a list of 15 (+1) packages, which likely disqualifies for an
upload of TeX Info 7.0. I'll try to look into these issues in the next
days, but I have doubt that I'm even able to evaluate if these are bugs
in makeinfo or bugs in the packages.
Hilmar
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