pd-hid caught in unstable, but why?

[Simon Wise]

On 09/10/11 07:58, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> On Oct 8, 2011, at 1:15 AM, Simon Wise wrote:
>
>> On 08/10/11 12:54, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>> On Oct 7, 2011, at 11:48 PM, Simon Wise wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 07/10/11 23:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I was just checking in on my packages, it seems that pd-hid is caught in
>>>>> unstable for 75 days, but I can't figure out what the issue is. The
>>>>> error message is "Adding pd-hid makes 1 non-depending packages
>>>>> uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64: pd-hid "
>>>>>
>>>>> http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=pd-hid;expand=1
>>>>>
>>>>> But what is that 1 non-depending package? Is it 'puredata (<<0.43)'?
>>>>> Other packages with that same Build-Depends are already in testing.
>>>>
>>>> The package is listed as pd-hid itself ... apparently it is not installable on
>>>> kfreebsd-amd64, that is what is keeping it out of testing
>>>
>>> That's odd, because buildd seems to show it as installed on kFreeBSD:
>>>
>>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=pd-hid
>>
>> It says that moving pd-hid to testing prevents pd-hid from installing on
>> testing in kfreebsd-amd64 [and maybe more architectures, only the first found
>> is listed].
>>
>> Since it IS installed on sid, is there something missing from testing, but
>> present in sid, that pd-hid needs before it can be installed? something that
>> is not listed as a dependency, but should be?
>>
>> Simon
>
> pd-hid was written in 2004-2005 and uses the Linux input.h. It's had bug fixes
> since then, but no major changes. I can't imagine what pd-hid would need that
> wouldn't be in oldstable, or sarge even. Any ideas on how I can find details on
> what the issue is?

I don't think testing has everything that is in stable - a combination of sid 
and testing together probably would have all that pd-hid needs, but maybe 
something hasn't migrated from sid yet --- maybe something to do with serial, or 
usb or something. Since it builds in sid, whatever is the missing dependency 
will presumably get migrated eventually.

Could you try building on a pure, minimal 'testing' system that has as little as 
possible already installed and see what pd-hid is missing there?

Simon