Bug#700389: libtimbl3-dev: Broken dependencies make other packages FTBFS (needs ticcutils/StringOps.h from libticcutils1-dev)

[Joost van Baal-Ilić]

Hi Peter,

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 03:18:33PM +0100, peter green wrote:
> This bug was filed against libtimbl3-dev and the discussion in this
> bug claims it's an issue in that package but the bug was closed with
> an upload of frog.
> 
> Closing a bug in one package with an upload of another leaves the
> bug in a somewhat confusing state. The bug is "closed" but it's
> still considered to affect the versions of the original package.
> That in turn means that britney is refusing to migrate timbl to
> testing which in turn means that frog is not buildable in testing
> (which is a rc issue in it's own right).
> 
> If you belive that fixing this bug in libtimbl3-dev is needed then
> please do so so that timbl can migrate. Otherwise please fixup the
> bug so it's filed against and closed by the same package.

libtimbl3-dev is obsolete, it should get removed from unstable (and possibly
jessie (testing)) soonish.  .  I'll investigate the issue one of these days,
and take needed actions.  Thanks for your bugreport,

Bye,

Joost

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