[Openstack-devel] Why did you upload netcf 0.2.2 to SID after the freeze?

[Thomas Goirand]

Hi Serge and Al,

Serge uploaded netcf to SID after the freeze, on the 2012-08-07, which
is more than one month after Debian Wheezy was frozen. Why did you do
that? Can't you just use Experimental? That's best practice, IMO.

I wouldn't recommend to upload a new version to SID after the freeze at
all, especially for a shared library, but this would have been
acceptable if Al's upload from yesterday (November 18th, according to
the PTS) completely broke broke libvirt in SID:

zigo at node ~$ sudo apt-get install libvirt0 libvirt-bin libnetcf1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libnetcf1 : Conflicts: libvirt0 (<= 0.10.1-2~) but 0.9.12-5 is to be
installed

SID, indeed, has version 0.9.12-5 of libvirt. And not even Experimental
has a libvirt version that could satisfy this dependency.

So we have libvirt0 that depends on libnetcf1, but libnetcf1 conflicting
with any libvirt0 that we have in SID / experimental. That doesn't look
like a library transition that has been coordinated with the release team!

Please fix the situation (eg: revert to version 0.2.0 if you need, the
Conflict: with libvirt0 is unacceptable), and *please* coordinate such
upload with the release team in the future.

Thomas Goirand (zigo)