On 2004-05-16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've just been looking at the http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/ > output, and found a number of packages that might be able to go > into testing with a little help. I'm not very familiar with the > hinting process, so I would appreciate if someone could > translate these into the appropriate hints, or alternately > explain why the situation in currently unresolvable.
> The following packages render themselves uninstallable when > entering testing, and also have an unfufillable Java dependency. > Isn't this allowed for contrib? > charva/1.0.1-3 needs j2sdk1.3 | j2sdk1.4 > libitext-java/1.02b-3 needs java2-runtime > jetty/4.2.19-1 needs j2re1.3 | j2sdk1.3 | j2re1.4 | j2sdk1.4 | java2-runtime > rhdb-explain/2.0-1 needs j2re1.4 | java2-runtime > freeguide/0.7.2-2 needs j2sdk1.4 | java2-runtime It is allowed but the testing scripts do not handle it. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2004/02/msg00065.html > The following packages render themselves uninstallable when > entering testing: > batick/1.5final-3 There is no package named batick in debian. > libxtm-perl/0.36-1 The new version is uninstallable, it conflicts: perl (>= 5.8). Afaict from the rationale in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=221076 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=167181 this is intentional and the package should be removed from sarge. remove libxtm-perl/0.36-1 > snes9express/1.42-1 snes9express depends on snes9-x which is only available on i386 and powerpc, but snes9express was built on all archs, and is therefore uninstallable everwhere but on i386 and powerpc. > stardict/2.4.3-1 Broken depends: # stardict (1.9.92+2.0.0-pre2-3.1 to 2.4.3-1) * Maintainer: Roy Hiu-yeung Chan * 50 days old (needed 10 days) * stardict-tools/alpha unsatisfiable Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4) * stardict-tools/ia64 unsatisfiable Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4) * Valid candidate ia64 and alphac use libc6.1 instead. Ouch. The package hardcodes this in the diff.gz. RC bug submitted. > xmmplayer/0.3.3-1 Depends: mplayer. > mplayerplug-in/2.60-1 Depends: mplayer > xfree86-driver-synaptics/0.13.0-1 uninstallable on s390. known problem, being worked on. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/05/msg00923.html [...] cu andreas -- "See, I told you they'd listen to Reason," [SPOILER] Svfurlr fnlf, fuhggvat qbja gur juveyvat tha. Neal Stephenson in "Snow Crash"
