Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 02:49:47PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
It's almost certain that both the relevant package maintainer and the
release team are already aware of this and that it has been a conscious
choice to accept the breakage.
Given that the package version clearly indicates it reached testing by way
of testing-proposed-updates, I think it's unwise to assume this. Cc:ing
debian-release for input on the uninstallability of gnome in testing.

While I did not take care about the fallout due to time constraints on my
side, I did take a look at the meta-gnome2 migration back then. We did not
place any approval hint but it seems that the multiple arch:all confused
britney sufficiently so that she decided to migrate those packages without
any hint at all.

Sadly I was unable to track down the bug in question and our log keeping
is currently almost non-existant.

As soon as something is copied over to testing autobuilding is automatically
stopped, which might be another bug of its own.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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