[Debian-hebrew-package] Your package got removed from testing because fpc/lenny is not distributable

Luk Claes luk at debian.org
Mon Dec 1 18:10:20 UTC 2008


Baruch Even wrote:
> * Luk Claes <luk at debian.org> [081128 17:28]:
>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 09:37:43AM +0200, Baruch Even wrote:
>>> * Luk Claes <luk at debian.org> [081128 01:58]:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Your package got removed from testing because it depends or
>>>> build-depends on a binary package from the fpc source package. The fpc
>>>> package in lenny was not distributable so it was removed from testing
>>>> together with all its reverse (build) dependencies. The version in
>>>> unstable has too much unrelated and rather big changes that we didn't
>>>> think it was an option to include an updated fpc in lenny.
>>>>
>>>> If you can make your package work without (build) depending on fpc,
>>>> please contact me and we'll work something out to readd it to lenny.
>>> It should be fairly easy to do that for our packages as they just
>>> generate a binding for fpc rather than really use it. What should we do
>>> to get this fixed?
>> Upload a package that does not (build) depend on fpc and prod me to
>> review it for unblocking.
> 
> I just uploaded 1.4.12-2 of libhdate. Please review.
> 
> hdate-applet only needs libhdate and need not be rebuilt, when you
> return libhdate please return hdate-applet as well.

both unblocked, they will return once libhdate is a candidate for migration.

Cheers

Luk



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