In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin Watson wrote: >That's not quite all that's necessary. A more precise definition of >"major problems" there is that none of the binary packages generated >from the source package may have any release-critical bugs (i.e. bugs of >severity serious, grave, or critical). Also, it must be in sync on all >Debian's architectures: that doesn't mean it necessarily has to be built >for all those architectures, but on the architectures where it has been >built it must stay in sync. All its dependencies must have satisfied >these conditions and made it into testing, too. And the version of the >package that's a candidate for being installed into testing must have >been in unstable for a certain amount of time.
>php4 is a large and fairly complex package, and it wouldn't surprise me >if it failed at least one of these. The exact reasons can be found in >the output from the testing scripts at >http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ (particularly >update_excuses.html), although the output is rather cryptic and you have >to know how to read it. I'd have a look for you, but ftp-master seems to >be down at the moment, so I'll try again later. Ok, that is all clear to me then. Thank you for explaining :) Am I right in assuming that since PHP4 in any version is completely absent in testing that ever since the start of 'testing' it has failed to build properly / meet all dependencies etc. ? The ftp-master still seems to be down so I haven't been able to have a look at the update_excuses yet. >The maintainer is probably the best person to try to sort out any >problems; after that, debian-devel is more likely to be read by more of >the relevant people than debian-user. Looks like (see other post on this subject) this might be what I need to try. I did not want to bother the maintainer or developers list with a question that most likely raised out of user ignorance / stupidity. Thank you for your answer Colin :) -- PGP: 0x4CE578BF ICQ: 760542 | Linux winter 2.2.16 is up 13 days, 11:54 http://uss-centauris.org/ | Reporter: Mr Gandhi, what do you think of Phone: (+31) 70 3467809 | Western Civilization? Cellular: (+31) 6 11316573 | Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.
