On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: > It may not be "grave" for the installer (indeed, you've already > established at great length that it's not an installer problem at all) > but that doesn't make it any the less grave for whatever package it > does belong to. You've given me a few hints as to how to figure out > what package that might be. Any further help -- from anyone more > knowledgeable than I -- will be appreciated, of course.
This looks like a fairly likely reason: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gnome-core For some reason the package was forced to testing even though it was not available on all architectures. If that is the reason, then it means that Gnome is currently not installable on all but 5 architectures. With powerpc probably the only one very many people will really care about (though that's a steadily declining number). It's almost certain that both the relevant package maintainer and the release team are already aware of this and that it has been a conscious choice to accept the breakage. Whether or not it should block the release of D-I is up to others. How did I get there (I needed the roundabout way because I don't have a powerpc box; it would have been trivial to check in aptitude)? - http://edos.debian.net/edos-debcheck/ - choose squeeze -> in the most recent run, choose powerpc -> http://edos.debian.net/edos-debcheck/results/testing/1261006803/powerpc/list.php And notice that gnome-accessibility (and a few others, but that seems the most likely cause) is listed, and check the reasons. A new version of the package (1:2.28+3) has been built for all arches: https://buildd.debian.org/~luk/status/package.php?p=meta-gnome2 But looks to be blocked by other packages for now: http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=meta-gnome2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
