* Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-10-05 01:28]: > > octave-gpc needs a requeue (and I think that's all) on alpha and > > mips, as it couldn't find libgpcl-dev and that package now appears to > > be available. I'm not sure what's going on with it on ia64; it > > installs libgpcl-dev and then can't find the header file from that > > package. Maybe (he says hopefully) a rebuild will help there too? > > Should I mail the arch addresses @buildd.debian.org about those two > > requeues? > > Actually, libgpcl-dev has been in the archive for alpha and mips, at > the same version, since before sarge's release. I think the issue is > simply that the autobuilders aren't configured to draw > build-dependencies from non-free; I've just checked with Ryan Murray, > and he confirms this is a policy decision, not a bug. So someone will > have to hand-build octave-gpc on alpha and mips (and possibly the > others).
Would it help if octave-gpc goes into non-free? BTW, is there anything in the Policy that prevents a package in contrib to build-depend on a package in non-free? -- Rafael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
