Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
The monotone package FTBFS on alpha and ia64, due to testsuite failures
which indicate that the package's principal executable is totally broken
on those architectures. Upstream believes the root cause to be bugs
in the toolchain rather than in the program itself, but does not have
the resources to investigate the problem in detail, and neither do I.
Thus, I believe it best to drop the package on those architectures.
To be 100% clear, I am requesting the removal of these binary packages
only:
monotone_0.40-5_alpha.deb
monotone_0.39-1_ia64.deb
The FTBFSes are filed as bugs 464884 (alpha) and 484749 (ia64). Note that
version 0.40-5 built "successfully" on alpha only because of a second
bug in debian/rules that masked the testsuite failures; the binary in
that package is just as broken as every other alpha build in some time.
The reverse-dependencies of monotone are:
monotone-server, monotone-doc
-- arch:all, built from the monotone source package,
installable on other architectures where 0.40-7 built fine
tailor, qct, ikiwiki
-- all three of these can be used with several VCSes; the
dependency is one of several alternatives, and except for qct,
is a Recommends or Suggests.
monotone-viz
-- operates on monotone databases but does not require monotone
itself to do so; the dependency is a Recommends.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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