Bug#538382: ekiga: uninstallable on i386, MU appears to have been built against unofficial ptlib packages

[Simon McVittie]

Package: ekiga
Version: 3.2.5-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package uninstallable

The maintainer (i386) upload of Ekiga depends on libpt2.6.4, but the first
official i386 binaries for libpt2.6.4 have not yet left the buildd that
produced them (which is bug #537320).

I can only conclude that the maintainer of Ekiga compiled the uploaded i386
binaries against packages other than those shipped by Debian. That does not
seem like a good thing for the stability of the distribution, to say the least
(and seems like a Policy §2.2.1 violation).

Please do not upload packages built against packages not supported by Debian,
unless you're going to upload the dependency packages yourself, before the
dependent package (i.e. making them official, by uploading them and taking
responsibility for that upload).

In the short term, this also makes ekiga uninstallable on i386.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ekiga depends on:
ii  evolution-data-server     2.26.3-1       evolution database backend server
ii  gconf2                    2.26.2-2       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.26.0-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libavahi-client3          0.6.25-1       Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3          0.6.25-1       Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-glib1            0.6.25-1       Avahi glib integration library
ii  libc6                     2.9-21         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.80-4         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libebook1.2-9             2.26.3-1       Client library for evolution addre
ii  libedataserver1.2-11      2.26.3-1       Utility library for evolution data
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.4.1-1      GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4               2.26.2-2       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.20.4-1       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.16.5-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libldap-2.4-2             2.4.15-1.1     OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gt 0.4.5-1        sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libopal3.6.1              3.6.1~dfsg-1   Open Phone Abstraction Library - s
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.24.5-1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpt2.6.1                2.6.1-2        Portable Tools Library
ii  libpt2.6.1-plugins-alsa   2.6.1-2        PTLib audio plugin for the ALSA In
ii  libpt2.6.1-plugins-oss    2.6.1-2        PTLib audio plugin for the OSS Int
ii  libpt2.6.1-plugins-v4l2   2.6.1-2        Portable Tools Library video plugi
ii  libsasl2-2                2.1.23.dfsg1-1 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.0.18-2       type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libstdc++6                4.4.1-1        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.2.2-1      X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                  2:1.0.4-1      X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2                   2.7.3.dfsg-2   GNOME XML library
ii  libxv1                    2:1.0.4-1      X11 Video extension library

Versions of packages ekiga recommends:
ii  gvfs                          1.2.3-1+b1 userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  yelp                          2.26.0-2   Help browser for GNOME

Versions of packages ekiga suggests:
pn  asterisk                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  callweaver                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  gnugk                         <none>     (no description available)
pn  mediaproxy                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  openser                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  rtpproxy                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  ser                           <none>     (no description available)
pn  siproxd                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  yate                          <none>     (no description available)

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