Webkit build issues

[Adeodato Simó]

(Bcc: -devel)

+ Cyril Brulebois (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:09:53 +0200):

> Heya folks,

> after Ari asked on #dd, I was wondering where one can track the
> currently planned binNMUs, so that I could answer his “when will webkit
> stuff be rebuilt?” question. Is vorlon's page on ftp-master still the
> reference? (Old link I have in my bookmarks, but I bet it'd rather be
> somewhere on r.d.o).

No, there is no list of scheduled Bin-NMUs. Hopefully there'll be one
with the new buildd pages in the medium-term future, but at the moment
there is none.

Anyway, the exact list of Bin-NMUs is rather uninteresting. More
interesting can be, I think, the current list of known transitions
against which the Release Team works, which you were pointed at on IRC
later:

    https://buildd.debian.org/transitions/summary.html

If something's not on that list, we don't know about it. At the moment
we don't know about webkit: nobody has informed us about it. (I've added
it now.)

For each transition, it is said if has Bin-NMUs pending to be scheduled
or not. This has false positives (i.e., sometimes the "Needs another
Bin-NMU round: yes" is not true), but well, it works okay most of the
time.

The thing is, if it's on that page, they'll get scheduled.

> Now, I've looked at the current Dep-Wait's (I think you usually trigger
> binNMUs when the build is available on all archs, or you use
> Dep-Wait's), but I've noticed the following chain:

> (seen on hppa, mips, sparc, possibly others)

> webkit     D-W on libsoup2.4-dev
> libsoup2.4 D-W on libproxy-dev
> libproxy   FTBFS because libwebkit-dev isn't installable
>                  (at least hppa, mips)

> I just thought I'd drop you a note about that.

I'm told Mike was looking into this, but it indeed looks like circular
Build-Dependencies...

Cheers,

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