On 03/10/2023 19.30, Bastian Blank wrote:
thread. Or freak out because meta packages remain uninstallable in backports for days.
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plus gcc or we change how backports works.
If uninstallable packages in backports are a problem, perhaps backports needs something like britney to migrate packages from an uploading area to the publishing area (once a package set is installable, no need for delays). That should solve the problem where several source packages need to be updated together. (It would also solve problems with unsatisfiable dependencies where the backporter-uploaded binaries were built by accident in sid instead of stable, requiring a binNMU before migration.)
(but this should be discussed elsewhere) Andreas