Joerg Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sam, Jun 23, 2001 at 02:47:45 -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: >> Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > AFAICT, why are neither sawfish nor sawmill in woody? The maintainer >> > > (Christian Marillat) is being uncommunicative. >> > Isn't it time that you figured out how testing works? Have a look at >> > http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ >> So instead of assuming that I've ignored the obvious sources of >> information, why not actually help answer the question? I checked >> update_excuses.
update_output.txt is several orders of magnitude more useful, once you get the hang of interpreting it. >> It says: >> sawfish 0.38-6 (new) (optional) (low) >> Maintainer: Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> sawfish uploaded 53 days ago, out of date by 43 days! >> valid candidate (will be installed unless it's dependent upon other >> buggy pkgs) "Out of date" means only that it's newer in unstable than in testing. If you see the above, it almost certainly means the package is waiting for dependencies. >This is the reason: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/src/source/sawfish-0.38# dpkg-checkbuilddeps >dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libgdk-pixbuf-gnome-dev > (>= 0.11.0-1), libgnome-dev (>= 1.2.13-5), libglade-gnome0-dev (>= > 0.16-2.1) Not directly. Unless the build-dependencies can't even be satisfied in unstable, testing doesn't care (and even then it only cares if people report RC bugs about it). sawfish can't be installed in testing because unstable's sawfish-gnome is uninstallable in testing, waiting on newer versions of gnome-libs and control-center. Upgrading control-center seems to make lots of stuff uninstallable, probably because it needs newer gnome-libs too; gnome-libs had an RC bug, recently closed, and will need to wait for the current version to be autobuilt. I'm glad to see that the most recent version of gnome-libs has relaxed its shlibdeps to something other than the most absolutely current version. This should help matters a lot. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

