shibboleth-sp2, boost, and memcached transitions

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Thu Mar 6 19:35:37 UTC 2014


On Thu, Mar  6, 2014 at 11:30:11 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Hello release team,
> 
> There is a new upstream version of shibboleth-sp2 that fixes a rather
> annoying bug that I would like to upload.  However, it uses Boost, so the
> PTS has been saying the following for quite some time:
> 
>     This package is part of the ongoing testing transition known as
>     boost1.54.  Please avoid uploads unrelated to this transition, they
>     would likely delay it and require supplementary work from the release
>     managers.  On the other hand, if your package has problems preventing
>     it to migrate to testing, please fix them as soon as possible.  You
>     can probably find supplementary information in the debian-release
>     archives or in the corresponding release.debian.org bug.
> 
> Presumably, this transition is having trouble and difficulty completing,
> so I've been very careful to not upload the package to not interfere with
> it.
> 
Please ignore the PTS warning.  The boost transition is pretty much done
anyway, and didn't need to block anything even when it wasn't.  I've now
added the right flag in our tracker to make it stop appear in the PTS;
that was an oversight.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Cheers,
Julien
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