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

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