Bug#780359: Options w.r.t. libcgal11 transition

Jonathan Wiltshire jmw at debian.org
Tue May 12 22:19:39 UTC 2015


On 2015-05-12 09:30, Johannes Ring wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw at debian.org> 
> wrote:
>> On 2015-05-12 09:07, Johannes Ring wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:35 PM, Joachim Reichel
>>> <joachim.reichel at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> dolfin is now the only reverse dependency holding up the libcgal11
>>>> transition.
>>>> 
>>>> What are the options?
>>>> (1) Fix dolfin without causing another transition
>>>> (2) Remove dolfin from testing
>>>> (3) Upload 1.5.0-1 from experimental to unstable
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This will be the correct solution IMO. I will do that now.
>>> 
>> 
>> No, please do NOT do that now. It is the correct long-term solution, 
>> but it
>> will entangle the cgal transition.
>> 
>> Wait until britney has a chance to sort it out.
> 
> ok!

Ok, please go ahead now. To upload to unstable from experimental, just 
add a changelog entry with "Upload to unstable" and an incremented 
version.

Your only r-dep is fenics, which appears to be arch:all and ships an 
empty package, so I don't know what all that's about...


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