Hi Olly, > It was waiting for mrpt 2.0.0 for wxwidgets3.0-gtk3 that got us into the > current mess of having two entangled transitions on the go for mrpt. If > we'd just updated the B-Ds of the existing package we'd have got that > out the way weeks (possibly months) ago. Instead mrpt is now the final > package blocking wxwidgets3.0-gtk3's completion. > > I understand it's tempting when you're both upstream maintainer and > Debian maintainer to try to do everything via new upstream releases > (it's a trap I've fallen into myself), but there are situations where > just fixing it in Debian really is the better option.
You are totally right, I can see it now.... However, I want to point out that we don't need to wait for mrpt-2.0.0, since the current version in unstable (1.5.8) already fixes this wxwidgets3.0-gtk3 bug. As you said, the problem now is the build issue in mipsel... I wrote an email to ftpmasters 12 days ago requesting the deletion of mrpt-1.x.x for mipsel, so we could go on quickly ago, but had no response yet. Perhaps you know a better way to go though? Perhaps a patch in debian/control to specify that we want mrpt-1.5.8 to get built on all archs except mipsel? Thanks, JL