On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:22:20PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > Thank you Santiago for the report! I believe it is due to outdated > > git-annex in testing, which didn't migrate solely due to FTBFS on s390x. > > I will request gb for it -- could have been a spurious/toolchain issue. > > CCing git-annex Debian maintainer
> Note: If you rely on a specific feature of a package which has not > reached testing yet, consider using a versioned build-depends. > The script which migrates packages to testing (britney) does not take > build-depends in account yet, but at least in this case I would > get an error like "build-dependencies not meat, can't build package" > which is usually better than a FTBFS. > Note 2: There is at least another package which broke after new git entered > testing. > It's git-build-recipe, Bug #835526. Maybe there is a common reason for > both packages to fail. FWIW -- #835526 is probably unrelated to this issue. We (and git-annex author) were aware of "merge of unrelated branches" change in behavior in git awhile back and both annex and datalad were read for it ;) -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
