Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 07:24:22PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
>> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 18:02 +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
>>>> Your package is not installable as it depends on libpetsc2.3.0 which is
>>>> not available anymore. You might want to update the dependency to
>>>> libpetsc2.3.1.
> 
>>> Thank you.  I've known about this for some time, but can't seem to get
>>> illuminator into testing because PETSc doesn't build on HPPA.  Which is
>>> odd, because PETSc is in testing without the HPPA build...
> 
>> That was probably at the time hppa was temporary by the testing
>> transition tool not regarded as a release architecture...
> 
> No.  This is the standard requirement that a package not have any *out of
> date* binaries for any architecture.  Not being built for an architecture is
> acceptable and just means the package hasn't been ported to the arch yet,
> but having out-of-date binaries implies that there has been a regression on
> an architecture where this package is supported.  Since in this case the
> regression is caused by an unavailable build dependency, the proper course
> of action is to ask the ftpmasters for removal of the hppa binaries.  This
> is the maintainer's responsibility.

Some notes:

* this bug (#376890) is not architecture specific.
* petsc had binaries on hppa, though not anymore

If I'm right illuminator will only be able to transition to testing when
both this bug is fixed and the hppa issue is fixed (either by having
working binaries for petsc on hppa or by removing the previous hppa
illuminator binaries)...

Cheers

Luk

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