pd-hid caught in unstable, but why?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 8, 2011, at 1:15 AM, Simon Wise wrote:

> On 08/10/11 12:54, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 7, 2011, at 11:48 PM, Simon Wise wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/10/11 23:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I was just checking in on my packages, it seems that pd-hid is  
>>>> caught in
>>>> unstable for 75 days, but I can't figure out what the issue is. The
>>>> error message is "Adding pd-hid makes 1 non-depending packages
>>>> uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64: pd-hid "
>>>>
>>>> http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=pd-hid;expand=1
>>>>
>>>> But what is that 1 non-depending package? Is it 'puredata  
>>>> (<<0.43)'?
>>>> Other packages with that same Build-Depends are already in testing.
>>>
>>> The package is listed as pd-hid itself ... apparently it is not  
>>> installable on
>>> kfreebsd-amd64, that is what is keeping it out of testing
>>
>> That's odd, because buildd seems to show it as installed on kFreeBSD:
>>
>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=pd-hid
>
> It says that moving pd-hid to testing prevents pd-hid from  
> installing on testing in kfreebsd-amd64 [and maybe more  
> architectures, only the first found is listed].
>
> Since it IS installed on sid, is there something missing from  
> testing, but present in sid, that pd-hid needs before it can be  
> installed? something that is not listed as a dependency, but should  
> be?
>
> Simon

pd-hid was written in 2004-2005 and uses the Linux input.h.  It's had  
bug fixes since then, but no major changes.  I can't imagine what pd- 
hid would need that wouldn't be in oldstable, or sarge even.  Any  
ideas on how I can find details on what the issue is?

.hc

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