Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > For a while I've been tracking the sarge inclusion of QA-managed > packages. Here is a status report. Some of you are getting this > because you have done something relevant to one or more of these > packages and should stay on top of things. But I have set the > Reply-To to debian-release. If you reply about one or more specific > packages, you might want to add the other relevant people too at your > option.
Thanks for the effort ;-) > According to http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=lirc, lirc > isn't in testing because there aren't current builds on any > architecture but i386. But according to packages.debian.org/lirc, > this is incorrect, and the latest package (-11) exists for every arch. > According to bugs.debian.org/260565 and bugs.debian.org/267323, the > problem is old outdated binary packages in the archive which need to > be deleted by ftpmaster. In my opinion, this kind of ftpmaster work > needs to take a priority. There are people (see those bugs) > interested in taking over lirc, but still, the package should get into > testing. The actual problem here is that lirc builds multiple > packages; one of them, lirc-svga, is Arch: i386 only. But the new > lirc can't get installed until the bogus non-i386 binaries for > lirc-svga get dropped from the archive. So this is in ftpmaster-wait. Right, I have changed severities and merged both bugs, and I am working on an upload that fixes several minor bugs. There's also a recently approved Alioth project to take care of lirc and libirman as a group. We are also working into getting newest upstream version in Sarge. Hope is free isn't it? :-) Thanks for contacting us regarding this. -- .''`. Resistance is futile. You will be componentized. : :' : `. `' Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux (Sid 2.6.6 Ext3) `- www.amayita.com www.malapecora.com www.chicasduras.com
