John Goerzen wrote:
> Luk Claes wrote:
>> John Goerzen wrote:
>>> Kari Pahula wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:20:02PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
>>>>> Kari Pahula wrote:
>>>>>> These need an upload to remove ghc6 (<< 6.8.2-999) from the build
>>>>>> dependencies (they currently FTBFS).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ftphs, haskell-anydbm, haskell-configfile, haskell-hsh, hdbc,
>>>>>> hdbc-odbc, hdbc-postgresql, hdbc-sqlite3, hslogger, ldap-haskell,
>>>>>> listlike, magic-haskell, missingh, missingpy, washngo
>>>>> Are these being taken care of, do you need a hand?
>>>> Those are John Goerzen's packages and unless he says otherwise, I'll
>>>> let him do it.  I'm CCing him.
>>>>
>>>> listlike, magic-haskell, washngo, ldap-haskell have the same versions
>>>> in unstable and testing, so those can go in via the usual route.  No
>>>> need to delay those anymore.
>>> I have uploaded to unstable all those that can go there.
>>>
>>> I had underestimated how difficult it would be to build the rest on my
>>> systems.  I have no lenny chroot, and would have to uninstall a vast set
>>> of packages to make that part work.  I can try to set up a lenny chroot
>>> on Wednesday to do this, but I likely won't be able to get to it before
>>> then (and Wednesday is the earliest I could possibly get to it).  If
>>> somebody else would like to do so, I'd be fine with that.  Otherwise, I
>>> will try to tackle it Wednesday.
>> Why can some not go via unstable? If it's because they are
>> uninstallable, they should rather be fixed IMHO.
> 
> Because newer versions are already present in unstable.
> 
> That is, development has continued on them since lenny was frozen.
> 
> It is true that I do consider the unstable versions to be at least as
> stable as the lenny versions, but it's not normal Debian policy to allow
> those things in.

But I already acknowledged to use the versions from unstable as base for
the new uploads...

Cheers

Luk



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