[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Bug#844937: owncloud-client at risk of not being in stretch [was Re: Bug#844937: fixed in owncloud-client 2.2.4+dfsg-2]

[Gaudenz Steinlin]

Hi Sébastien

Thanks for the heads up. I'm mostly just doing backports uploads. So if
Sandro disagrees, go for his opinion. 

Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> writes:

> Dear owncloud-client maintainers,
>
> owncloud-client is scheduled for removal from testing on 2016-12-21,
> because #844937 is not yet fixed in testing. And since packages will
> not be allowed to enter back testing after 2017-01-06, there is a
> significant risk that owncloud-client will not be part of stretch,
> which would be a disservice to our users.
>
> The problem is that version 2.2.4+dfsg-2 (which has #844937 corrected)
> failed to compile on mips* archs, and therefore cannot migrate to
> testing. The root cause of this FTBFS is a nasty bug in binutils
> (#844227 and its clones), so it is largely out of your control.

Good catch. I had a quick look at the PTS page when I got the
autoremoval mail, but thought that it will sort itself out because the
bug is fixed.

>
> In order to avoid the removal of owncloud-client from testing, I
> suggest to request the removal of owncloud-client binaries on mips
> arches *in unstable* (hoping that ftpmasters will deal quickly enough
> with the removal request). At least, that would allow non-mips users to
> benefit from an owncloud-client package in stretch.
>
> Are you ok with this solution? If yes, I can do the removal request if
> you are too busy to do so.

Yes sounds like a good plan. If it builds again on mips the binaries
will reenter testing.

Gaudenz

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