[maemo-developers] extras repository problems

[From: Niels Breet]

On Sat, January 17, 2009 10:40, Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> i am having two problems with the maemo repositories:
>
> a) i uploaded osm2go-0.6-9 half a day ago and the logs show the autobuild
> was successful: https://garage.maemo.org/builder/diablo/osm2go_0.6-9/
> But the new version just doesn't show up in extras-devel.
> How comes?
>

There was a problem with cron on the repository machine. That has been
fixed now. You should see your packages in the repository now?

>
> b) The previous version also isn't installable anymore since it claims to
> have a mssing dependency on libgoocanvas-common (= 0.9-2maemo0). How do
> these things happen? Since this version also was built using the
> autobuilder, the build mechanism sure had access to all these parts. How
> comes they are gone now?
>

It should be available? I see it in Packages:

Package: libgoocanvas-common
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 128
Maintainer: Johannes Schmid <johannes.schmid at openismus.com>
Architecture: all
Source: goocanvas
Version: 0.9-2maemo0
Filename:
pool/diablo/free/g/goocanvas/libgoocanvas-common_0.9-2maemo0_all.deb
Size: 31966
MD5sum: 9a3573d2989d4c889be3146a715eb415


> I really think the repositories need a maintainer. There are so
> many broken things in them ...

The new debmaster position will be filled soon, the community council is
selecting the candidate at the moment. So I guess we will hear something
about that real soon.

>
> Till


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Niels Breet
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