hi, Fredrik Jonson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a debian/unstable hg user. After 3 weeks of bug inactivity and > about 6 weeks after the release of hg 1.2.1 I wonder what is the > status of bug 522426? The bug mentions some form of build dependency > issue, is there any activity on this issue, and are there any other > bugs that this issue depends on?
There is an issue in the build-tool chain. In fact, the current package (1.2-1) FTBFS (fails to build from source) with the tools in sid. I suspect this is a change in cdbs that trigger this problem. > I notice that Ubuntu has built and released[0] a backport of mercurial > 1.2.1 that actually is based on debian's mercurial svn repository > so I'm a bit surprised to see that the debian release is stalled. They is not much difference in the svn packaging between 1.2 and 1.2.1 (wrt debian packaging). So, environments where 1.2-1 can build are also able to build 1.2.1-1. I'm pretty sure that the svn repo is able to build a 1.2.1-1 in a lenny environment. Two solutions can be done for this bug: - find a small patch so that the current package can build with sid tools - redone the packaging based on dh7 directly (and drop the cdbs dependency) I'm planning to do the second one but I'm missing free time to do it for now. I also will accept any patch that can lead to a package that can be built with current sid tools. > [0] https://launchpad.net/~mercurial-releases/+archive/ppa > > BTW, any plans for a 1.2.1 backport for lenny? Mercurial has acquired > a lot of polish and command sanity in the 1.1 and 1.2.1 releases > compared to the 1.0.1 release found in debian stable. Yes, I upload mercurial backport to backport.org as soon as I can (ie as soon as it reaches testing). You can use the version in the etch distribution (1.1.2-2~bpo40+1) for now. And 1.2-1 should build on lenny without any problem: apt-get build-dep mercurial apt-get source -b mercurial dpkg -i *.deb Regards, Vincent > cheers, -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: FC95 08A6 854D DB48 4B9A 8A94 0BF7 7867 9D02 5E87 Unofficial pacakges: http://moais.imag.fr/membres/vincent.danjean/deb.html APT repo: deb http://perso.debian.org/~vdanjean/debian unstable main -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org