[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#588903: python-insighttoolkit3: uninstallable on armel: Depends: python (< 2.6) but 2.6.5-6 is to be installed

[Jakub Wilk]

* Steve M. Robbins <steve at sumost.ca>, 2010-07-28, 21:04:
>  serious
>    is a severe violation of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a
>    "must" or "required" directive), or, in the package maintainer's
>    or release manager's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for
>    release.
>
>    (from http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer)
>
>It's a bug, but not a violation of any policy that I can think of.
>
>I'm willing to be persuaded otherwise.  What makes it "serious"
>in your eyes?

Normally I would just apply common sense, but if you insist that it's OK 
to release an uninstallable package, here you go: 
http://release.debian.org/squeeze/rc_policy.txt, point 4:

"Packages must autobuild without failure on all architectures on which 
they are supported. [...] Packages are assumed to be supported on all 
architectures for which they have previously built successfully."

>P.S.  Can you help me debug the build failure?  It only failed on that 
>one architecture, "armel".  The same code (version 3.18.0-2) built on 
>armel in May.

No, sorry, I have no idea. Please contact armel porters.

-- 
Jakub Wilk
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