On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 10:25:41AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > We (the Debian Octave Group, pkg-octave.alioth.d.o) are running into a > nasty problem regarding the Debian autobuilders. For some reason, one of > the previous uploads of the octave2.9 package has wrongly manipulated the > octave-config alternative and have let it in the manual status pointing > to an non-existent file (/usr/bin/octave-config-2.1.71). > > This means that every package build-depending on octave2.1 does not have > the correct alternative installed and fails to build on the autobuilders > (or, even worse, builds incorrectly and enters testing, see Bug#349139). > > To help diagnosing the problem, I added a "upadate-alternative --display" > command to the debian/rules file of the octaviz package. The result can be > seen here, for instance: > > http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=octaviz&ver=0.4.0-21&arch=ia64&file=log > > An excerpt of the log above: > > ########################################################################### > Selecting previously deselected package octave2.1-headers. > Unpacking octave2.1-headers (from > .../octave2.1-headers_1%3a2.1.72-8_ia64.deb) ... > [...] > Setting up octave2.1-headers (2.1.72-8) ... > [...] > /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display octave-config > octave-config - status is manual. > link currently points to /usr/bin/octave-config-2.1.71 > /usr/bin/octave-config-2.1.72 - priority 80 > slave octave-config.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/octave-config-2.1.72.1.gz > Current `best' version is /usr/bin/octave-config-2.1.72. > ########################################################################### > > How can this problem be fixed?
That will need to be manually fixed, so the buildd maintainers will all have to be contacted. Which I just did with this mail ;-) -- .../ -/ ---/ .--./ / .--/ .-/ .../ -/ ../ -./ --./ / -.--/ ---/ ..-/ .-./ / -/ ../ --/ ./ / .--/ ../ -/ ..../ / -../ ./ -.-./ ---/ -../ ../ -./ --./ / --/ -.--/ / .../ ../ --./ -./ .-/ -/ ..-/ .-./ ./ .-.-.-/ / --/ ---/ .-./ .../ ./ / ../ .../ / ---/ ..-/ -/ -../ .-/ -/ ./ -../ / -/ ./ -.-./ ..../ -./ ---/ .-../ ---/ --./ -.--/ / .-/ -./ -.--/ .--/ .-/ -.--/ .-.-.-/ / ...-.-/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
