On Thu, 10 May 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:46:02PM +0200, Adrian Bunk écrivait: > > The only problem with roxen2 seems to be that it's being held up by pike7 > > that waits for imlib (or it will become uninstallable on alpha) that waits > > for libpng (or it will become uninstallable on powerpc) that is only 6/10 > > days old. > > Tell me how you can do such diagnostics ? How much time did you use ? > > I know madison, apt-cache and everything. It's still not straightforward > to find out why a package doesn't make it into testing. >...
First, I look at update_excuses [1] if there's a reason listed why a package won't go into testin. If not, I go to the end of update_output [2] to see on which architecture(s) the problem occurs. Then I do download the binary package for this architecture and compare it's dependencies with the one's on my architecture (i386) and I try to guess where the difference is and check on update_excuses [1] if one or more of the differing packages haven't made it into testing until now. With a bit experience you find most of the problems this way (although I must admit that there are packages where I don't find the problem - I ask ajt in these cases). cu Adrian [1] http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html [2] http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_output.txt -- Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, sondern weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie schwierig.
