testing migration errors about libqt4-webkit

[Adam D. Barratt]

On 2015-09-14 16:54, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> On 14/09/15 17:34, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
>> On Monday 14 September 2015 10:12:40 Daniel Pocock wrote:
>>> https://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=postbooks 
>>> tells
>>> me that my package didn't migrate to testing because "libqt4-webkit 
>>> is
>>> not available in Debian"

Well, it also says "Updating postbooks makes 1 non-depending packages 
uninstallable on amd64: postbooks-updater", which is more relevant.

>>> I unpacked the binary package[1] with "dpkg -e ..." and looking 
>>> inside
>>> the control file, libqt4-webkit is not mentioned anywhere.  It only
>>> depends on libqtwebkit4 (>= 2.1.0~2011week13)
[...]

I'm not sure why it's getting the package name wrong, other than because 
the script needs rewriting from scratch (to handle multiple 
architectures (at least amd64), deal sensibly with extra-source-only, 
notice that the package is being auto-hinted, etc). If you want to know 
what's going on with britney, I'd suggest looking at output that's 
generated by britney (i.e. britney logs and/or grep-excuses).

It's possible / probable that the "not available in Debian" is due to 
the fact that (as it says) the script only checks binary dependencies on 
i386, and postbooks doesn't build there.

> Can anybody in the release team comment on this?

I have to admit that I'm failing to spot what the exact issue is, other 
than postbooks and postbooks-updater want to migrate to testing at the 
same time but don't have an explicit dependency relationship (and I 
believe that Niels has added a hint to achieve that while I was checking 
things and writing this reply).

Regards,

Adam