On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 11:35:27AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:02:17AM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=gdbm shows that gdbm > > breaks 1079 packages that are in testing. I checked the changelog for > > gdbm, and I believe the changes were necessary, and were far more than > > cosmetic. Why would so many packages be broken by the new gdbm > > entering Sarge? Are dependencies set to specifically the previous > > version(s) of gdbm?
> Almost all of the things you see are spurious, since the gdbm and > gdbm173 source packages need to be pushed in simultaneously; the > apparent breakage is mostly due to the fact that upgrading only gdbm > without gdbm173 breaks the version of perl in testing. > However, a new version of apache2 is needed before gdbm can be upgraded, > because the version of libapr0-dev in testing depends on libgdbmg1-dev > which is now gone, and apache2 needs a new version of openldap2 which is > blocked on several release-critical bugs. A fix for the last openldap2 RC bug is in the works. A patch is available, but since porting from OpenSSL to GNUTLS is a substantial change, some more testing is called for yet. Also, getting OpenLDAP into testing will depend on getting a new (not yet uploaded) libgnutls into testing, as the port turned up an ABI problem with the current GNUTLS on 64-bit platforms. We'll hopefully see results in this area in two to three weeks (the new gnutls will be released this coming week, AIUI). -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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