Bug#608504: please provide libgcrypt11 udeb package for debian-installer

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Mon Jan 3 18:08:07 UTC 2011


On 2011-01-03 Jonas Meurer <jonas at freesources.org> wrote:
> On 01/01/2011 Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...]
> > Uploaded with minor changes. I fear the package will need to go
> > throug NEW tough, due to the added component (udeb).

> Thanks for the quick response. But I fear that a binNMU will be required
> once both libgcrypt11 1.4.6-2 and libgpg-error 1.10-0.2 entered debian
> experimental.
> I cannot prove this right now, as the libgcrypt11-udeb package is not
> available yet, but from what I know since yesterday, libgcrypt11-udeb
> might depend on libgpg-error0 instead of libgpg-error0-udeb,

Hello,
It does. I saw this just before uploading but uploaded anyway to get
into NEW. I intend to version the build-depends accordingly, once the
new gpg-error is accepted.

[...]
> as the
> latter is not available from Debian archives yet.
> Sorry for the extra work,

No worries.

> but I wasn't aware of this fact up to now.

> To my understanding, udebs mustn't depend on any non-udeb package, as
> only udebs are available to satisfy dependencies in debian-installer.
[...]

I have never maintained a udeb before and expect to make some
further mistakes. ;-)

cu andreas

-- 
`What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are
so grateful to you.'
`I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'





More information about the Pkg-gnutls-maint mailing list