Lucas, Norbert, Julien, Hilmar, thank you for your feedback.
I modified slightly the build-dependencies of collatinus, it should pass the build under Sid. The package is now uploaded at http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/collatinus/ If any of you can upload it, I thank him in advance. If it is not feasible, I shall post a call more widely in two days. Best regards, Georges. Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > On 03/01/10 at 17:40 +0000, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 18:30:46 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > > > > > On So, 03 Jan 2010, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > > It might have been a good idea to announce the change and explain the > > > > possible impact before doing it, and maybe do an archive test build > > > > > > The packages have been in experimental for some time. > > > > That's irrelevant... > > > > > > And no, we didn't do an archive test build, my laptop is to small for that > > > and that is the *ONLY* developing machine for texlive. > > > > I'm not suggesting doing that on your laptop. There have been archive > > test builds for new gcc versions and countless other things in the past, > > I asked for one before the last libx11 upload, etc. It's not more work > > for you to ask for this, and it means you have an idea about the impact > > of your changes on the rest of the archive, which means you and others > > can be better prepared for the change when it happens. > > > > > > before uploading the new packages then, instead of making an unknown > > > > number of packages unbuildable without warning… Oh well, maybe next > > > > time. > > > > > > I know that this is bad, but that is SID about. How many times > > > *our* packages stopped with FTBFS due to some poppler switch I don't > > > want to recount to you. That is life, and it is sid, so nothing to > > > complain. > > > > > Yes, actually, something to complain. Your packages have a lot of > > reverse build dependencies, which means you are responsible for > > communicating with those package maintainers when planning disruptive > > changes. Nothing new there, and because some other packages caused > > disruption in the past doesn't mean you have to do the same. > > Lots of packages break the archive because of transitions on > a regular basis. More communication from the texlive maintainers would > have been nice, as well as more coordinated actions during the bug > filing. But asking for archive rebuilds before each major transition is > just too much. > -- > | Lucas Nussbaum > | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | > | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | > > > -- Georges KHAZNADAR et Jocelyne FOURNIER 22 rue des mouettes, 59240 Dunkerque France. Téléphone +33 (0)3 28 29 17 70
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