Hi Cyril, On 24 May 2012 at 01:34, Cyril Brulebois wrote: | Hi Dirk, | | it seems like we have an uncoordinated transition, from libquantlib-1.1 | to libquantlib-1.2. That can be seen on the excuses page, and that
My packages (listed below) are the only users of libquantlib. In the past (as I've maintained this for a decade) I simply use 'libquantlib' but I was told that versionsed libraries would be "better". I am not convinced that that is the case... | explains why your package isn't migrating: | | quantlib (1.1-2 to 1.2-2) | | | | Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel | | 69 days old (needed 10 days) | | out of date on armel: libquantlib-1.1 (from 1.1-2) | | out of date on mipsel: libquantlib-1.1 (from 1.1-2) | | out of date on s390: libquantlib-1.1 (from 1.1-2) | | out of date on armhf: libquantlib-1.1 (from 1.1-2) (but armhf isn't keeping up, so nevermind) | | Not considered | | See: http://release.debian.org/britney/update_excuses.html#quantlib | | Trying to remove the old binary packages would lead to breaking the | following packages, which therefore need binNMUs, hoping they won't | FTBFS: | | # Broken Depends: | | quantlib-swig: quantlib-python [mipsel s390] | | quantlib-ruby [mipsel s390] As can be seen on https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=quantlib-swig both builds simply die of resource starvation. There is /a lot/ of C++ here in a single large Swig generated file, and it needs sufficient memory to compile. Someone needs to schedule this with sufficient build resources. We had this issue before on other arches. | | rquantlib: r-cran-rquantlib [armel armhf] That failure (which is echoed on a lot of other r-cran-* packages) is a complete mystery to me, and to upstream. The build process is /highly/ automated at the R side too, and works on hundreds of other source packages across a dozen other arches. As can be seen on https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=rquantlib two variables simply do not expand. But I do not know why it fails here, and I have no suggestion. Dirk | Next time, please coordinate with us, we have been trying to get the | message across during the past few years through messages to dda@, and | we have documentation on the process: | https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions | | Mraw, | KiBi. | xapplication/pgp-signature [Click mouse-2 to save to a file] -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20413.32786.360610.847...@max.nulle.part
