Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > When trying to upgrade to the latest libapache2-request-perl > > (2.04-dev-1sarge2) > > I've got a broken dep on perl >= 5.8.4-8sarge4, but perl 5.8.4-8sarge3 only > > is available. > > > Following Joey's piece of advice, I'm contacting you on that matter. He > > remarked that perl 5.8.4-8sarge4 is the one in proposed-updates... > > This is a bug introduced by the security team. There is nothing the > stable release team can do about this but only release the next stable > point release in near future. > > I read the developers reference where it says: > > Build the package on a clean system which only has packages installed > > from the distribution you are building for. > as "Do only build packages within a stable enviroment." If the security > team uses additional resources to build their packages, their fault.
FWIW: The package has been built by a build daemon. That's nothing the security team controls. > They can not even been sure that packages in proposed-updates will be in > the next stable point release. > > So, please go and ask the security team to update that package again. That won't help. Quick investigation: Affected architectures: alpha arm i386 mips mipsel s390 sparc Unaffected architectures: amd64 hppa ia64 m68k powerpc Regards, Joey -- Reading is a lost art nowadays. -- Michael Weber -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]