On 09.03.2013 19:10, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 18:45 +0100, Julian Taylor wrote: >> A problem with failing the installation if matlab is missing is that it >> prevents migration from Ubuntus proposed repository to the main one. >> Migration requires that it installs and does also not make other >> packages uninstallable. >> E.g. this right now affects dynare, it can't migrate because it depends >> on matlab-support which does not install. >> >> I though that the debian unstable -> testing works the same way, but >> apparently not as e.g. dynare was allowed to go into testing. > > In the context of testing migration, installability is determined by > computing package relationships, not by actually attempting to install > the affected packages (which generally wouldn't add much and isn't > feasible given the number of packages involved). >
makes sense, I probably have misinterpreted the britney(?) output. dynare is not migrating because of an incomplete libmatio transition. So the failing install is probably no problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
