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

Baruch Even baruch at debian.org
Mon Dec 1 12:33:01 UTC 2008


* 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.

Cheers,
Baruch



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