Control: tags -1 confirmed On 30/06/17 12:03, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > Le jeudi 29 juin 2017 à 19:41 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit : >> On 29/06/17 14:10, Sébastien Villemot wrote: >>> Package: release.debian.org >>> Severity: normal >>> User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org >>> Usertags: transition >>> X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-octave-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org >>> Control: forwarded -1 >>> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-octave.html >>> >>> Dear Release Team, >>> >>> Please schedule a transition for octave 4.2. The new package is already in >>> experimental. >>> >>> Few reverse dependencies will need sourceful NMUs. In any case, we stand >>> ready to NMU. >> >> So how many rdeps (and which ones) fail to build atm? > > Sorry for not having been more specific. > > Of the 43 rdeps affected by the transition: > > - We tested the 10 that are not maintained by the Debian Octave Group. > They all rebuild correctly. > > - We did not test the other 33 that are maintained by us. But they > should be working fine with Octave 4.2 (according to upstream). And in > the unlikely case of a build failure and no available patch, we can > request temporary removals from testing, since these are leaf packages. > If you think this is necessary before starting the transition, we can > test them, even though we feel this is unnecessary work.
No need to. You can go ahead. Cheers, Emilio
