On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 04:52:30PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi Serge and Al, > > Serge uploaded netcf to SID after the freeze, on the 2012-08-07, which > is more than one month after Debian Wheezy was frozen. Why did you do > that? Can't you just use Experimental? That's best practice, IMO. > > I wouldn't recommend to upload a new version to SID after the freeze at > all, especially for a shared library, but this would have been > acceptable if Al's upload from yesterday (November 18th, according to > the PTS) completely broke broke libvirt in SID: > > zigo@node ~$ sudo apt-get install libvirt0 libvirt-bin libnetcf1 > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > libnetcf1 : Conflicts: libvirt0 (<= 0.10.1-2~) but 0.9.12-5 is to be > installed > > > SID, indeed, has version 0.9.12-5 of libvirt. And not even Experimental > has a libvirt version that could satisfy this dependency. > > So we have libvirt0 that depends on libnetcf1, but libnetcf1 conflicting > with any libvirt0 that we have in SID / experimental. That doesn't look > like a library transition that has been coordinated with the release team!
It doesn't conflict with the version in experimental. Although a breaks would be prefereable over a conflicts. I'd prefer uploading 1.0.0 to sid rather than reverting the netcf change. We do have much better test coverate for current versions and 0.9.12 isn't a particular good release. Cheers, -- Guido > > Please fix the situation (eg: revert to version 0.2.0 if you need, the > Conflict: with libvirt0 is unacceptable), and *please* coordinate such > upload with the release team in the future. > > Thomas Goirand (zigo) > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-libvirt-maintainers mailing list > pkg-libvirt-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-libvirt-maintainers > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121119103714.ga15...@bogon.sigxcpu.org