Bug#781995: Bug#782381: Bug#781995: motif/2.3.4-6.1 failed to build

2015-04-26 Thread Graham Inggs
On 25 April 2015 at 10:56, Julien Cristau wrote: > Why does the symbols file include private symbols (i.e. why are > supposedly private symbols being exported by the library in the first > place)? I don't know. I did ask upstream about it in their bug #1565 [1] and got the following response: I

Bug#781995: Bug#782381: Bug#781995: motif/2.3.4-6.1 failed to build

2015-04-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 14:02:29 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > On 16-04-15 07:31, Graham Inggs wrote: > > If you uploaded 2.3.4-6.2 now, could it cause any harm? At least this > > will get the package built and Release Team can still decide whether > > to grant the unblock request or not. > > I up

Bug#781995: motif/2.3.4-6.1 failed to build

2015-04-17 Thread Paul Gevers
On 16-04-15 07:31, Graham Inggs wrote: > If you uploaded 2.3.4-6.2 now, could it cause any harm? At least this > will get the package built and Release Team can still decide whether > to grant the unblock request or not. I uploaded the package 2.3.4-8 (I couldn't call it a NMU ;) about an hour ag

Bug#781995: motif/2.3.4-6.1 failed to build

2015-04-16 Thread Graham Inggs
retitle 782381 pre-approval: unblock: motif/2.3.4-6.2 thanks On 16/04/2015 07:46, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 1:31 AM, Graham Inggs wrote: If you uploaded 2.3.4-6.2 now, could it cause any harm? At least this will get the package built and Release Team can still decide whet

Bug#781995: motif/2.3.4-6.1 failed to build

2015-04-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 1:31 AM, Graham Inggs wrote: > If you uploaded 2.3.4-6.2 now, could it cause any harm? At least this > will get the package built and Release Team can still decide whether > to grant the unblock request or not. If you can talk the release team into pre approving an unblock

Bug#781995: motif/2.3.4-6.1 failed to build

2015-04-15 Thread Graham Inggs
Hi Michael On 16 April 2015 at 02:29, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Upstream intends that symbol to be private, so it should be unused in > other packages. But for confidence that it doesn't lead to breakage, > someone should build test the reverse dependencies, which is a large > number. Graham can

Bug#781995: motif/2.3.4-6.1 failed to build

2015-04-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi all, > > All the builds of motif failed [1] due to a missing symbol. What are we > going to do? I saw that Graham already choose to just remove the symbol > from the Ubuntu package. I believe that this is really a no-no, > especially without

Bug#781995: motif/2.3.4-6.1 failed to build

2015-04-15 Thread Graham Inggs
On 15 April 2015 at 21:12, Paul Gevers wrote: > I saw that Graham already choose to just remove the symbol > from the Ubuntu package. I believe that this is really a no-no, > especially without careful investigation if other packages are using > this symbol and this late in the release process.

Bug#781995: motif/2.3.4-6.1 failed to build

2015-04-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, All the builds of motif failed [1] due to a missing symbol. What are we going to do? I saw that Graham already choose to just remove the symbol from the Ubuntu package. I believe that this is really a no-no, especially without careful investigation if other packages are using this symbol a