Good afternoon developers, on this fine and sunny afternoon! Recently, my attention was pointed to bug #273015 [1], about a metapackage being uninstallable. On closer inspection, this turned out to be a merge request, actioned 9 days ago.
Also on closer inspection, it turns out that at least two of these metapackages are not installable. One of these was clearly never installable, due to depending on a package that does not exist in Ubuntu, at all. I see no request for a sync of the non-existant package, nor any record of it in launchpad. Consequently, I must ask whether these were even test built. They certainly weren't all checked for installability, as the errors would have become immediately obvious. [2] I also note that this merge was done by a universe contributor, and sponsored by a MOTU. While I do not wish to particularly shame the people involved for making the error, I do feel this is a good reminder for everyone, whether they are writing patches, or sponsoring them, or both. Consequently, I'd like to remind all universe contributors, MOTUs, Core Developers, Sponsors, and anyone else submitting and actioning patches, to check that their resulting packages build, and install, before uploading. Feature freeze is a time where we're attempting to stabilise the archive - so should not be introducing more breakage. For those of you who use pbuilder to build packages, please note that there are pbuilder hooks that will test installability for you. This is vaguely mentioned in our guide [3], and more thoroughly in the Pbuilder Users Manual [4]. Sbuild may have similar features, but I do not use it myself. Have a great weekend! Hobbsee (On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team) 1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/meta-gnome2/+bug/273015 3. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PbuilderHowto 4. http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/pbuilder-doc/pbuilder-doc.html#autotesting 2. When installing gnome-office: The following packages have unmet dependencies: gnome-office: Depends: abiword-plugin-goffice (>= 2.6) but it is not installable E: Broken packages AND 'rmadison -u ubuntu abiword-plugin-goffice' returns nothing - ie, no such package.
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