Bug#591287: vlc from experimental cannot be build with the curent unstable version (I even wonder how it can have been produced)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 02:51:34PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote:
>On 08/20/2010 02:37 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 02:03:24PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote:
>>>Normally its a critical bug when you cannot rebuild...
>>
>>True. It is a so-called FTBFS (Failure to build from source).
>>
>>The appropriate severity should be tagged no matter the branch the 
>>package is located in.
>>
>>And to address your wondering in subject (please always include full 
>>message in body of emails, to ensure they get fully noticed): a 
>>package targeted experimental should be built against unstable + 
>>experimental packages, nothing else!
>
>I know. But the critical FTBS should be on vlc experimental and also it 
>should depend on the proper matroska version that is still in the new 
>queue!

Do I understand you correctly that the package currently in experimental 
was built against a version of matroska not available in Debian unstable 
nor Debian experimental?  If so, that package is a BAD build!!!

Just imagine one scenario out of many: That new Matroska package gets 
rejected from NEW due to a licensing problem.  But we already shipped 
binary code containing same licensing SILENTLY in experimental.  That is 
BAD!!!

DON'T DO OFFICIAL BUILDS AGAINST NON-DEBIAN-RELEASED PACKAGES. EVER!


  - Jonas

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