On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > The current excuse for 'fam' in > <URL:http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz> is > > - fam (- to 2.6.6.1-4) > * Maintainer: Joerg Wendland > * 16 days old (needed 10 days) > * fam/hppa unsatisfiable Depends: libstdc++3 (>= > 1:3.0.3-0pre011215) ['gcc-3.0'] > * Valid candidate > * Depends: fam gcc-3.0 > > Why is it still not included in Woody? Several kde and gnome packages > depend on this package, and it would be nice if it make it into Woody > soon. > > I do not understand the unsatisfiable depend error. The program was > successfully compiled on hppa. Is the problem gcc-3.0 >= > 3.0.3-0pre011214 missing in Woody? This seem to be a problem on arm > and m68k, and should not affect hppa, or am I mistaken?
short answer: fam won't go into woody as long as the build errors of gcc-3.0 on arm and m68k aren't fixed. long answer: fam was compiled with a recent libstdc++3-dev on hppa so you got a dependency on libstdc++3 (>= 1:3.0.3-0pre011215). This dependency can't be fulfilled inside woody at the moment. The way testing works is that fam won't get into woody until a recent enough libstdc++3 is in testing. It doesn't matter whether the problems that keep the new libstdc++3 from entering testing are build problems on other architectures, RC bugs in any package built from the gcc-3.0 source package or dependency problems that arise when the binary packages from gcc-3.0 enter testing. cu Adrian
