Hallo, On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 04:33:06PM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > > >Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hrmz, and what about xerces21, currently still in unstable and testing? > > > > There are two packages (gdal and qgis) that depend upon xerces21. > > Bugs have been filed against both (301710/301650 and 301709), and both > > maintainers have already responded. . . . > > I haven't seen any recent activity on this from the maintainers > (though the qgis maintainer can't do anything until the gdal > maintainer does). My inclination is to execute the following plan: > > * File a removal request for xerces21 noting that I am not the > maintainer of xerces21 but am the maintainer of the newer versions; > X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (maintainer of xerces21) > > * Ivo (xerces21 maintainer) gets the removal request, and replies to > it giving his blessing. (Alternatively, Ivo, who is copied on this > message, can beat me to the punch and file the removal request for > xerces21, cc'ing me so I know, or can speak up and say he that he > objects to removal of xerces21 for some reason.) > > * Once this happens, we upgrade the three above mentioned bugs to RC > (since they will FTBFS), and state intention to NMU if no response > in a given period of time. I'm copying maintainers for gdal and > qgis, so they can respond too before I do this, maybe making the > whole plan irrelevant. > > Is this too aggressive? The bugs requesting upgrade of the other > packages are two weeks old now, so it seems like this may be a > reasonable approach at this time if we want to remove xerces21 but not > gdal and qgis.
No, it is not to aggressive. I appologize for the inconvenience
since I - being the gdal maintainer - am responsible for the delay.
A new gdal package, depending on xerces26 has been uploaded
yesterday by my sponsor so that qgis can no be rebuild as well
before xerces21 is removed.
Regards,
Silke
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