On Thu, 06 Apr 2006, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > net-snmp (providing libsnmp5) was forced in together with 125 other > source packages the hard way, to resolve a huge transition with lots of > libraries tied to eachother. > > Temporary uninstallability of some less important packages was a > casuality of this, for the greater good of getting this
I have never disputed it. I am complaining that the packages this transition broke were *not* removed as part of the transition. And "temporary" is *not* true. The uninstallability was *permanent* unless fixed by a new upload of the broken packages. Yes, that's correct. I am complaining that the transition broke hplip-base and didn't even adopt a proper procedure of *removing* hplip-base from testing. > Anyway, currently hplib-base isn't in the archive at all. No, I got rid of it for other reasons, and this has nothing to do with this bug anyway. > Not a bug, so closing. Britney is to safeguard the testing archive's inner coherence. If it is told to put 125 packages in, that's not a problem. If that transition breaks a number of other packages, that isn't a problem either *as long as* britney goes on and remove those packages that broke with the transition. How is that not a bug?! I am going to reopen this unless you can give me a proper technical reasopn for why testing should be broken by such transitions with permanently uninstalable packages (which have to be *fixed* by a new upload) instead of removing them. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
