On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:40:03PM +0200, Bj?rn Stenberg wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 08:29:42PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > The report from > > > http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=python2.3 looks much > > > different, and I guess I was expecting Colin's note to be similar. > > > > It's a common mistake to assume that update_excuses.html (which Bj?rn's > > script uses, I believe) is the only relevant information. In fact > > update_excuses.html only lists obvious and cheap-to-calculate problems. > > More expensive checks - counting uninstallable packages after attempting > > to install each package in turn - are logged in update_output.txt. > > Actually, my script already reads both these files.
Oh, OK, sorry. > But there is currently no "trying: python2.3" line at all in > update_output.txt, and hence no result to report. Could this be due to > the following output at the bottom: > > Hint from ajt: python2.3/2.3.1-1 > Version mismatch, python2.3 2.3.1-1 != 2.3.1-2 > Not using hint > > Or is there some other reason for this, that perhaps my script could > detect and report? python2.3 isn't ready for testing today because it just had a new version uploaded. python2.3 (2.2.106-2beta2 to 2.3.1-3) Maintainer: Matthias Klose Too young, only 0 of 2 days old idle-python2.3/ia64 unsatisfiable Depends: python2.3-tk (>= 2.3.1-3) python2.3-examples/ia64 unsatisfiable Depends: python2.3 (>= 2.3.1-3) Not considered When you see "Not considered", that means that the package does not go through the (expensive) stage of processing that produces update_output.txt. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]