Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:37:53PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> The same happened to the planner package, and has been reported as >> #344538. It seems that hppa buildd is broken, don't know yet whether >> the buildd admin (Lamont) or anybody of the debian-admin (responsible >> for the hardware) is at it. > > Hasn't the problem on the hppa buildd been fixed for a while? The pdns > package (both versions 2.9.19-2 and 2.9.19-3) has built fine on that arch > now.
It *seems* it has been fixed; but I don't know whether it has just disappeared, or has been fixed by human intervention, and if yes by which. Since the first may be true, it might as well reappear again. > If the buildd wasn't installing a package that was part of the dependencies, > then it surely thought for some reason it was already installed. If this > wasn't actually the case, it points to a buildd problem Which is what I've been trying to say for weeks. > or a bug in some > maintainer script or other; How a bug in a maintainer script could have the result that installing an arch-all package fails because an other arch-all package is not there, and how this can happen on only one particular machine of one particular architecture, this I fail to see. > either way, it seems to be corrected now. No, it seems to work now. I have not indication that it has been *corrected*, a word which to me implies that it has been dealt with by a human being. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
