On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:23:38AM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > the original submitter of this bug marked it as wontfix. > But I think that this bug should be addressed somehow.
Indeed, I think it should be as well > There are 25 packages that directly rdepend on libffi4, and removing > libffi4 has a huge usability impact on a 'unstable' install ... > thru all dependencies, you have to uninstall almost all of gnome. > > I see two solutions to this lock. > > 1) Upload a new, separate version of libffi4 that would not > depend on gcc-4.3-base (= 4.3.0-3) > > 2) BINNMU of all above 25 packages. > In this latter case, you must be sure that all bbuildds > are running 4.3.0-4 - when I uploaded mplayer on2008-05-03, > this was not the case yet. > IN particular, I am worried: maybe there is some > rdependecy that is stopping bbuildd's from upgrading to 4.3.0-4 ; > in that case, the only way to solve this lock is (1). I don't know about the strict requirement of gcc-4.3-base but there are some packages build-depending on libffi4-dev and not on libffi5-dev thus a binNMU would not be sufficient, namely: $ grep-dctrl -i -sPackage -FBuild-Depends libffi4-dev /var/lib/apt/lists/mi.mirror.garr.it_mirrors_debian_dists_sid_*_Sources Package: gauche-c-wrapper Package: jamvm Package: sablevm Package: squeak-vm these should be fine though: $ grep-dctrl -i -sPackage -FBuild-Depends libffi-dev /var/lib/apt/lists/mi.mirror.garr.it_mirrors_debian_dists_sid_*_Sources Package: ctypes Package: g-wrap Package: gambas2 Package: gnu-smalltalk Package: gnustep-base Package: gtk-vnc Package: lua-gtk Package: miro Package: pygobject Package: python2.5 filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi - http://esaurito.net PGP key: 0x6B79D401 random quote follows: Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy. -- Alan Perlis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
