[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#710650: Bug#718767: transition: ocaml 4.00.1

[Thomas Goirand]

On 09/24/2013 09:48 PM, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> Le 06/09/2013 10:14, Thomas Goirand a écrit :
>> However, as I wrote it, it's going to happen, so please be patient about
>> it. IMO, this shouldn't block any transition though. If the release team
>> is reading: just let everything transition to testing, and remove the
>> old version of XCP 1.3.2 in testing if that helps, plus add some
>> blocking bugs so that the rest of Debian isn't affected by the (not
>> finished) work on XCP 1.6 for Debian.
> 
> More than two weeks later, xen-api is still in testing, and preventing
> the start of the OCaml transition.
> 
> If I remove all binary packages of xen-api from testing, the following
> new packages are broken: xcp-guest-templates, nova-xcp-plugins,
> nova-compute-xen.
> 
> xcp-guest-templates is built by guest-templates which seems to be a leaf
> package and could be removed from testing.
> 
> On the other hand, both nova-* packages are built by nova which Julien
> wants to keep in testing. The last changelog entry advertises the
> removal of nova-xcp-plugins, but it is still there.
> 
> Thomas, could you please upload a new nova without nova-xcp-plugins and
> nova-compute-xen?

Well, that's the problem. It would be ok for me to remove
nova-xcp-plugins, though it is not to remove nova-compute-xen, which
needs python-xapi. At least I would like to keep the possibility to
connect to CenOS-based XCP servers using the OpenStack in Debian.

Thomas