-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 > 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 Good! I appreciate the info. Regarding rebuilds, if it's only a few packages affected we might be able to squeeze them into RC1. Bear in mind however that the build system will be going down for a long-overdue maintenance overhaul shortly, so the short-term focus should probably be on releasing and testing RC1 instead of making it work 100% on Jessie. Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlRUVTgACgkQLaxZSoRZrGHW0gDeM3AAQD0Iz0EiDK4SMsRTtz+8 B99cNIKXpmS25ADghupPg3p2c1F80lRBzrfmnGtCKiF/X9qoqdlPEQ== =p2NC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----