[Pkg-kde-extras] kvirc REMOVED from testing

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Sat May 14 17:14:34 UTC 2011


On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 19:03:11 +0200, Kai Wasserbäch wrote:

> Dear Julien,
> Debian testing watch schrieb am 14.05.2011 18:39:
> > FYI: The status of the kvirc source package
> > in Debian's testing distribution has changed.
> > 
> >   Previous version: 4:4.1.1~svn5639-1
> >   Current version:  (not in testing)
> >   Hint: <http://release.debian.org/britney/hints/jcristau>
> >     # 20110507; done 20110514
> >     # ftbfs on s390
> 
> I don't understand this removal: my last info was, that the version in Testing
> was built on all arches correctly. Now, the current version triggered some crash
> in dpkg (though I'm not sure dpkg is to blame here*), AFAICT there is nothing
> we, the KVIrc maintainers, can do to fix this.
> Thus I'd like to hear the reasoning behind this removal.
> 
> * [0] shows a memory corruption on the buildd, triggered during a dpgk-shlibdeps
> run. So this might be some temporary issue on the buildd, some bug in eglibc or
> something dpkg. Anyway: I don't see how this warrants the removal of KVIrc.
> 
kvirc depends on libperl.

Cheers,
Julien



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