[Webmin-maintainers] Re: webmin-firewall, webmin-exports, etc. no longer in testing.

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Edwin Clubb wrote:

> Many of the most useful webmin components (webmin-firewall,
> webmin-exports, etc.) were removed from the testing branch, apparently
> because of bug #299223.  But when I look at
> http://bjorn.haxx.se/testing.pl?package=webmin-extra to see why the
> source package is not in testing, I am informed that the webmin-extra
> package is waiting for usermin, that usermin is waiting for
> webmin-optional and webmin-optional is waiting for webmin-extra.  This
> suggests that there is some recursive dependency issue here.  Is this
> the case or is this lone bug the reason that some 15 webmin modules are
> no longer available?
>

It's a bit of both.  The RC bug needs to be fixed first.  Then the release
manager will have to manually break the dependency circle so all the
packages can enter testing.

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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
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