[Debian-med-packaging] Any idea why mgltools-sff did not migrate to testing over the last two years

[Charles Plessy]

Le Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 08:59:44AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> looking at
> 
>    https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=mgltools-sff
> 
>     Section: non-free/science
>     155 days old (needed 5 days)
>     Valid candidate 
> 
> I fail to see any reason why this package does not migrate to testing.
> 
> Anybody else?

Hi Andreas,

I do not know why the “excuses” page does not mention it (perhaps it does not
parse well data from the non-free area ?), but mgltools-sff is available only
on amd64 in Sid, while in Jessie it is available on many more:

$ rmadison mgltools-sff
debian:
 mgltools-sff | 1.5.6~rc3~cvs.20120206-1 | wheezy/non-free | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc
 mgltools-sff | 1.5.6~rc3~cvs.20120206-1 | jessie/non-free | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, powerpc, s390x
 mgltools-sff | 1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1 | sid/non-free    | source, amd64

Since it is a regression, I think that this blocs testing migration.

It looks like the reason that mgltools-sff was not built was that its
build-dependance mgltools-bhtree was not available when build was attempted,
and there was no further attempt.

Cheers,

-- 
Charles