[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#877295: Bug#877295: amarok build-depends on removed package libgpod-nogtk-dev

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 01:28:54PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> In data sabato 30 settembre 2017 13:17:43 CEST, Adrian Bunk ha scritto:
> > libgpod-nogtk-dev was a transitional package removed in libgpod 0.8.3-9.
> > 
> > amarok is the only package build-depending on libgpod-nogtk-dev.
> 
> Even if amarok is the only rdep, the "first I break, then I file
> serious bugs on rdeps" modus operandi is *not* a good way of
> cooperating with other packagers in Debian.
> Filing a bug some time before, or even writing an email, would have
> been a much nicer, and cooperative, way.

amarok is not in testing and anyways needs a source upload for #784448.

It is also worth looking at the around 300 (sic) currently open RC bugs
I have reported for FTBFS that were *not* caused by me [1]:

Current status quo in Debian is that it is completely normal that
a new upload of some package is followed by me filing 10-50 RC bugs
against packages that FTBFS due to that change.

So when the only rdep is one package that is not in testing and anyways 
requires a (non-trivial) sourceful upload for re-entering testing,
I fail to see any reasonable justification for me to spend additional
time on going through any process longer than just filing an RC bug.

> Pino Toscano

cu
Adrian

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=bunk@debian.org

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