[DRE-maint] Lenny release team summary (important! read this!)

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 16/08/08 at 15:30 +0200, Michael Schutte wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 02:36:51PM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > This is a small update.  I removed the parts that I flagged as "to be
> > ignored for now" in the previous summary.
> > 
> > Note that I am leaving for a conference with a few hours and I won't be
> > able to deal with the still pending tasks.  Could someone take this job
> > upon himself?  We need to have everything solved by the end of next week
> > IMO.  I will be back August 25 and until then probably without internet
> > (it's not a hacker's conference ;)).
> > 
> > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 05:19:07PM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > > The summary (information gathered from QA report, PTS, BTS):
> > > 
> > > | Newer upstream available (7)
> > > |             libdb4.2-ruby       0.6.2-3 < 0.6.5
> > > |             libdb4.3-ruby       0.6.2-2 < 0.6.5                     
> > > |             libdb4.4-ruby       0.6.2-1 < 0.6.5                       
> > > 
> > > Michael Schutte is working on it.  The libdb-ruby is already on 0.6.5 in
> > > sid, not in testing just yet.  These source pakages should be removed and
> > > libdb-ruby's libdbX.Y-ruby package should provide for a transition.
> > 
> > Status of this work? Anyone?
> 
> In theory, this is no problem; I checked all rdeps and found only gonzui
> to be struck by an API incompatibility.
> 
> In practice, the transition is blocked by the fact that the hppa buildds
> currently do not build ruby1.9 packages, and I’m unable to provide a
> hand-built deb (in the absence of such hardware).  Just uploading a new
> revision which drops the -ruby1.9 binary package might be the easiest
> solution here, but then, ruby1.9 users will have no way of accessing
> Berkeley databases in Lenny.

Hi,

Please do as if hppa wasn't there, and ask the release team to force the
package to testing when it's built everywhere except hppa.

I just talked to a release team member, and they might decide to exclude
hppa from lenny.

Lucas
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