Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

2003-07-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:05:59AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: * Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-07-04 00:03]: Please stop saying rude things like Please check foo to the people who are trying to explain the state of play to you, because they are right: it has been like this for a

Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

2003-07-04 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-07-04 00:03]: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:58:37PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Please check the update_excuses, it would make package foo _not_ a valid candidate, if that happens. That doesn't happen for circular dependencies (i.e. cycles of packages

Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

2003-07-03 Thread Björn Stenberg
Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Yes, I've read the testing page with the FAQ and both the testing_excuses and testing_output, but I can't see the reason why libsidplay doesn't enter testing. I've written a little script that tries to answer precisely this type of question. You can run it here:

Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

2003-07-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:37:06AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Yes, I've read the testing page with the FAQ and both the testing_excuses and testing_output, but I can't see the reason why libsidplay doesn't enter testing. It can (or at least it could a few days ago), it just needs a manual

Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

2003-07-03 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:50:50PM +0200, Björn Stenberg wrote: Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Yes, I've read the testing page with the FAQ and both the testing_excuses and testing_output, but I can't see the reason why libsidplay doesn't enter testing. I've written a little script that tries to

Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

2003-07-03 Thread Björn Stenberg
Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Thanks for the great script. It shows me that the testing script seems to be buggy, because: - Updating sidplay-base makes 1 packages uninstallable on alpha: sidplay-base Uhm, that is somehow nonsense. How can an update of a package make itself

Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

2003-07-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:21:53PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:50:50PM +0200, Bj?rn Stenberg wrote: Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Yes, I've read the testing page with the FAQ and both the testing_excuses and testing_output, but I can't see the reason why libsidplay

Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

2003-07-03 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 06:03:38PM +0200, Björn Stenberg wrote: Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Uhm, that is somehow nonsense. How can an update of a package make itself uninstallable? What's the reasoning behind it? Because it breaks testing rule #5: The operation of installing the package into

Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

2003-07-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 07:21 US/Eastern, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Uhm, that is somehow nonsense. How can an update of a package make itself uninstallable? What's the reasoning behind it? Easily. Example: Package: foo Version: 1.0.6-4 Depends: libc6 = 2.2.0 vs.

Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

2003-07-03 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:49:28PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 07:21 US/Eastern, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Uhm, that is somehow nonsense. How can an update of a package make itself uninstallable? What's the reasoning behind it? Easily. Example: Package:

Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

2003-07-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 13:58 US/Eastern, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Replacing foo-1.0.6-4 with 1.0.7-1 would make foo uninstallable (becasue there is no glibc-2.4.0 in testing) Please check the update_excuses, it would make package foo _not_ a valid candidate, if that happens. Hmmm, you have a

Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

2003-07-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:47:07PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 06:03:38PM +0200, Björn Stenberg wrote: Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Uhm, that is somehow nonsense. How can an update of a package make itself uninstallable? What's the reasoning behind it? Because it

Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

2003-07-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:58:37PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:49:28PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 07:21 US/Eastern, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Uhm, that is somehow nonsense. How can an update of a package make itself uninstallable?