[Pkg-javascript-devel] block request on js-team packages?

[Andrius Merkys]

Hi Nilesh,

On 2022-01-28 09:48, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> On 1/28/22 12:55 PM, Andrius Merkys wrote:
>> Thanks for the pointer. However, it is not evident to me how this bug
>> could cause false-positive freeze blocks, but maybe there is a whole
>> story behind that. Just minutes ago there was an inquiry on this on
>> debian-devel@, I hope to see the explanation there.
> 
> There's a block-all source hint added, see here[1]
> which is translating to the deep freeze message, it is definitely
> misleading but probably to my understanding britney
> code is not mature enough for real reasons yet.
> 
> About the bug, as far as I saw IRC (I don't see it often - chat pasted
> below) binutils is producing broken binaries because of that
> bug, and since virtually everything in debian would depend on that
> package everything is blocked for now.
> I hope that helps clarify it a bit :)
> 
> [1]: https://release.debian.org/britney/hints/elbrus

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Thanks, this explains the situation well.

Best,
Andrius