On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:24:15AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:03:14AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:24:42AM +0200, Daniel Schepler wrote: > > > Since libcurl3-dev was removed from unstable, suddenly a lot of packages > > > are > > > now FTBFS because their Build-Depends on libcurl3-dev cannot be > > > satisfied. > > > Would you consider providing a transition libcurl3-dev package for now, > > > or > > > making libcurl3-openssl-dev provide libcurl3-dev? -- Unless it's your > > > intention to force all maintainers to choose explicitly between the > > > openssl > > > and gnutls versions immediately, in which case there should be a mass bug > > > filing. > > > i'd like to force rdepends packagers to choose the right libcurl3-*-dev > > for them. anyway i agree with you about the wrong time to enforce this. > > > i'll re-introduce libcurl3-dev as a transition package depending on > > libcurl3-openssl-dev. anyway i don't consider this urgent and it will > > be solved with the next upload, which is not too far away. > > This kind of uncoordinated change is in fact *very* disruptive when > we're in the middle of a pile of transitions for testing; you've left all > packages that build-depend on libcurl3-dev in an unbuildable state in > unstable (38 of them, it appears), and some of these currently *need* to be > built in order to get the KDE transition through without breaking packages > in the process. Specifically, php4 and php5 are tied into the mess, and are > missing builds on various architectures which can't be done now without a > libcurl3-dev fix, or a sourceful upload of php4/5 that requires a rebuild on > all archs. > > So depending on when you think you'll upload curl again, I need to decide > whether it's quicker to do a new sourceful upload of php4 and php5, or wait > for this transition package.
this is enough for me to consider such upload urgent. i'm building and uploading within minutes. thank you domenico -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://people.debian.org/~cavok/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
