Bug#347337: gconf2: Version 2.12.1-8 for ia64 is missing from the archive

[John Wright]

Package: gconf2
Version: 2.12.1-8
Severity: important

The latest version of gconf2 available for ia64 is 2.12.1-7.  Unfortunately,
since the gconf2-common package is arch-all, the only version available in sid
is 2.12.1-8.  Since most (all?) of the binary packages provided by gconf2
depend on the same version of gconf-common, it is impossible to install a
2.12.x version of gconf2.  In fact, it is impossible to install gconf at all on
a brand-new ia64 installation.

Here is what happens when I try to install gconf2 in a new sid chroot:

root at jupiter:/# apt-get install gconf2 libgconf2-4 gconf2-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 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:
  gconf2: Depends: gconf2-common (= 2.12.1-7) but 2.12.1-8 is to be installed
  libgconf2-4: Depends: gconf2-common (= 2.12.1-7) but 2.12.1-8 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
root at jupiter:/# apt-get install gconf2-common=2.12.1-7
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Version '2.12.1-7' for 'gconf2-common' was not found

I am able to successfully build version 2.12.1-8 on ia64, so it's not a FTBFS
problem; somehow it just was never uploaded.

-- 
John Wright

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: ia64
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-mckinley-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gconf2 depends on:
ii  gconf2-common                 2.10.1-6   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libc6.1                       2.3.5-8    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.10.1-6   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.8.5-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  liborbit2                     1:2.12.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpopt0                      1.7-5      lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libxml2                       2.6.23-1   GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.2.3-9  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gconf2 recommends:
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.8.9-2    The GTK+ graphical user interface 

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