Пт 15 сен 2023 @ 14:25 David Bremner <da...@tethera.net>: > Lev Lamberov <dogs...@debian.org> writes: > >>> elpa-hl-todo has a versioned depends which is wrong. >> >> It is not wrong. It is as it is stated in the code, and as it is >> detected by dh-elpa. >> >> Personally, I don't see any problem here. The hl-todo-el package is just >> waiting for the latest upstream version of complat-el. There's no hurry >> to make its way into testing right now. From my point of view there is >> only a wishlist bug requesting the latest upstream version of compat-el >> to be uploaded into unstable. > > Yeah, I see what you mean, but the versioned depends is unsatisfiable in > unstable, so it doesn't make sense to upload the package to unstable, > unless there is something weird like a circular dependency. > > I don't think it's OK for packages in unstable to be uninstallable in > unstable. It certainly meets the textbook definition of a release > critical bug, since nobody can actually use the package.
Unstable is... well, unstable. Sometimes things break there. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There's no point in removing either compat-el or hl-todo-el from testing because of this. Regards, Lev
