On 11/01/2014 12:04 PM, Michele Calgaro wrote: > On 11/01/2014 08:58 AM, Timothy Pearson wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA224 >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> we have another unwelcome message: >>> >>> libtool (2.4.2-1.11) unstable; urgency=medium >>> >>> * Non-maintainer upload. >>> * Drop libtool's dependency on libtool-bin. >>> * Add libtool-bin dependency on libtool. >>> * Make libtool Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #682045. >>> * Bump standards version to 3.9.6. >>> >>> -- Matthias Klose <doko@.........> Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:21:11 +0200 >>> >>> >>> This means that the packages that need to building libtool will need to >>> have a >>> set to variant dependency: "libtool-bin | libtool". I suggest to wait for >>> a >>> change in tde-packaging before we know what all packages will be affected. >>> Now I ran into this problem with pytdeextensions and bibletime. We will >>> see >>> what will follow. We'll see whether it will be appropriate to wait for the >>> change after RC1. >>> >>> -- >>> Sl�vek >> >> Thanks for the heads up. RC1 will *not* support Debian Jessie due to this >> change, but we will try to make R14 support Debian Jessie as of its >> release. >> >> This is incidentally why I don't like tracking unstable distros. I know >> many users want to use Jessie (due to the age of the packages in Wheezy) >> but it's constantly being broken and we simply don't have the finances to >> rebuild the packages over and over and over again. :-( >> >> As an aside, please refrain from uploading any new packages to QuickBuild >> at this time. After the RC1 builds are complete I will be taking it >> offline for long-overdue scheduled maintenance lasting one or two days. >> >> Tim > > I ran in the exact same problem during last night partial rebuild (everything without the "applications" part). > Most of packages build anyway, so we can say that even though RC1 does not support Jessie 100%, we are probably not far > away from there. Today I will run the remaining part, so by tomorrow I should be able to say exactly how many packages > FTBFS due to the missing libtool (at the moment I found pytdeextensions, haven't rebuilt bibletime yet). > IMO, if we end up with only two packages being the problem, we could also consider to fix them for RC1, provided that > this does not trigger a "cascade rebuild" of several other packages on the build farm. > > Cheers > Michele > By the way, I forgot to say that Jessie will be frozen on Nov. 5, so after that it should be much more stable. Cheers Michele