Re: xtide vs xtide-data in testing
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 08:18:13AM -0400, stan wrote:
> > Todays dist-upgrade "held back" xtide-data". Is this package being merged
> > with xtide itself? Or what is the deal here?
>
> No, the new xtide-data only works with a new xtide. Normally this would
> have kept it out of testing, but xtide-data only recommends xtide, it
> doesn't depend on it; shrug, I don't know the details here.
I guess it was theoretically possible that someone might use xtide-data
for the data itself. I hadn't thought of the current situation
happening. I suppose I should change it to a depends.
> xtide 2.6-1 apparently hit a compiler bug on ia64, so that will have to
> be resolved or worked around before it can enter testing.
There is something I could try. I wanted to test-build it myself first,
but can't because all the ia64 machines listed on
http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi are woody.
Guess I'll upload it and hope for the best...
Peter
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