On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 03:48:23AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > So, it's time to hint mozilla in together with its locale packages. > I have been so looking forward to a recent mozilla in sarge. :-)
Nathaniel,
I'm finding it difficult to follow quite what you're saying; would
you mind considering reformatting your mails so your suggestions are
more obvious? eg by writing them as:
] ==> remove orp-classpath/1:0.02.1-3
] Not updated since stable, depends on orp which is trying to be removed.
ie, a highlighted line appropriate for a hints file, followed by the
justification for that hint. For details, see:
http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/hints/
For things that aren't ready now, something like:
] ==? Fix Bug#123456
] ==? Rebuild jack-foo, jack-bar, jack-baz
] ==> hint jack/1.2.3-4
] The jack change can go in after some rebuilds, and some bug is fixed.
> * fftw3 has a build failure on a platform (powerpc) which the maintainer
> doesn't have access to. freqtweak depends on it. (Could remove
> freqtweak, or force fftw in. Or someone with a powerpc who understands
> Fortran and Fourier transforms could fix it -- like that's likely.)
You'll generally find it's a lot more likely that the bug'll get fixed
if people try to fix it, than if people try to avoid having to.
> * wine: Not old enough.
I'm much happier being generous about the ones that aren't old enough
than the ones that are known to be buggy. At least that way there's a
good chance testing doesn't get buggy packages, whereas the other way
it's certain it will.
> Looks *pretty* good. I've nagged the maintainer of pd-externals and gem
> again. ;-) I have no idea how to solve the powerpc build failure for
> fftw3 (I have no powerpcs and don't know fortran), but it seems to be
> the main actual holdup at the moment.
Voltaire's a powerpc. Doesn't have fortran installed though, could do if
someone asks -admin though.
Cheers,
aj
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