Package: avahi Version: 0.6.9-8 Severity: serious The avahi source package builds both libraries with extensive reverse dependencies, and unused bindings for a certain currently-favored resource-hogging runtime. Thanks to the latter, it is proving nearly impossible to get any packages updated in testing right now without leaving something uninstallable, because qt-x11-free, kdelibs, avahi, and mysql-dfsg-5.0 all need to be updated at the same time, and avahi also requires mono to be updated due to ABI changes. As a result of these same ABI instabilities in mono, gtk-sharp also has to be updated at the same time as mono, and gtk-sharp is currently failing to build on ia64 and powerpc with the same mono problem that was affecting avahi itself previously.
Having source packages of core libraries tied to high-level languages, particularly languages that are apparently in a state of flux, is not robust. If the libavahi-cil bindings are needed in Debian (they don't have any reverse-dependencies), please consider moving them to their own source package. Filed as severity: serious, because this currently blocks some 200 package updates in testing including mysql, KDE, and GNOME; and I'm planning to push avahi into testing in advance of mono, which will leave libavahi-cil uninstallable in testing anyway until the versions of mono and gtk-sharp currently in unstable are in a releasable state. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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