[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#649068: Bug#649068: Seems to need Wheezy build environment (Was: rgmanager and resource-agents: error when trying to install)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Ivo,

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 01:59:44PM +0100, Ivo De Decker wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 04:40:22PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Isn't creating a clean Wheezy chroot and building the package there the
> > best way to go anyway.  I know that "usually" building against unstable
> > is the right way to go but besides this we are targeting at Wheezy and
> > at some point in time (read close to the release data) building in a
> > "to-be-released" environment sounds more reasonable to me than blindly
> > following a rule that does not fit optimally.
> 
> Uploads to t-p-u should be built in testing, not unstable:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#t-p-u
> "Make sure that you've built and tested your package in testing, not in
> unstable;"
> 
> I tried to do the build in wheezy when I first created the patch (10 days
> ago), so it should still build there.
> 
> BTW did you ask for pre-approval from the release team for this upload? The
> freeze policy requires this for updates that can't go to unstable.

Hmmm, why do you think that the package can't go to unstable?  It builds
fine in unstable, I have not seen any versioned depends that might
prevent a migration to testing.  Did I missed something?

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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