Hello. On 11/11/16 14:34, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:06:04AM +0100, Stefan Schmidt wrote: >> I did my monthly packaging update again and was hoping this moved to >> unstable by now. It is still in experimental only as far as I can see. >> Is there an automatic way this packages get from experimental to >> unstable, testing stable? Or are you supposed to pursue Albin again to >> get it uploaded to unstable? > > A few items on the current status: > > 1) All uploads will go through Albin (or some other sponsor). > > While reviewing, Albin had some questions on the internal EFL deps and > shared symbol versioning. The packaging produces unusually strict (for > Debian) dependencies. We're working through it. > > 2) experimental -> unstable is a manual migration. Once in unstable, > packages automatically migrate to testing, and then to the next stable > release. Packages are not normally added to existing stable releases.
Ah, I see. I somehow expected it to be an automatic process from experimental to unstable as well. Thus I was wondering why nothing happened in one months. If its a manual process that makes more sense. > > We uploaded to experimental for additional testing opportunity, since > Debian contains packages which depend on EFL. When we're happy with the > status, they'll be uploaded to unstable. > > 3) The packages in experimental break binary compatability with the > existing unstable packages. For instance, you can't use the > experimental packages break the terminology packages in unstable. > > (Why? The packages in unstable preserve a bit of pre-1.0 eina ABI that > was released into Debian many years ago. That requires disabling magic > debug, and in EFL 1.17 tests break with this config. We decided the > eina tests are more valuable than the ancient ABI.) > > So it's going to take some time - sorry. Oki doki. I will wait and hope :) regards Stefan Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
