pd-hid caught in unstable, but why?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

FYI, here's the answer from debian-release:

On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 22:01 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 16:43 -0400, 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)'?
> 
> No, it's pd-hid, as the message you quoted indicates.
> 
> > Other packages with that same Build-Depends are already in testing.   
> > Also, buildd  seems to show it as installed on kFreeBSD:
> 
> That only indicates it builds, not that it's installable.
> 
> edos-debcheck is one method of demonstrating the issue:
> 
> $ edos-debcheck -explain -checkonly pd-hid < Packages_kfreebsd-amd64 
> Completing conflicts...                                            * 100.0%
> Conflicts and dependencies...                                      * 100.0%
> Solving                                                            * 100.0%
> pd-hid (= 0.7-1): FAILED
>   pd-hid (= 0.7-1) depends on one of:
>   - pd-mapping (= 0.2-1)
> 
> $ edos-debcheck -explain -checkonly pd-mapping < Packages_kfreebsd-amd64 
> Completing conflicts...                                            * 100.0%
> Conflicts and dependencies...                                      * 100.0%
> Solving                                                            * 100.0%
> pd-mapping (= 0.2-1): FAILED
>   pd-mapping (= 0.2-1) depends on missing:
>   - pd-cyclone
> 
> $ dak ls pd-cyclone
> pd-cyclone | 0.1~alpha55-3 |       testing | source, amd64, armel, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
> pd-cyclone | 0.1~alpha55-3 |      unstable | source, amd64, armel, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adam
> 
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