Re: pkgsrc-2011Q3 freeze has started

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 02:13:35PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> I think that schedule is too tight to ensure basic sanity of the branch.
> I have a bulk build running on NetBSD 5.99.55/AMD64 (with GCC 4.1) which
> is currently at 2427/11720. There is one infrastructure patch pending
> related to fixing an issue with Ruby 1.8 only packages. Build failures
> at this early stage not fixed since yesterday:
> 
> (1) Emacs 23.3a aborts during bootstrap.
> 
> (2) Festival doesn't build due to errors in the inttypes.h definition in
>     GCC3. This most likely needs some catch up with the header changes
>     in current.
> 
> (3) qmail fails installation check due to overlapping PLIST with a
>     dependency.
> 
> (4) kdelibs4 doesn't build due to missing dependencies.
> 
> (5) Lots of Python packages don't support 3.1 -- IMO the default support
>     list shouldn't include 3.1 as the list of packages which do work is far,
>     far smaller than the list of packages which don't. I plan to change
>     this after the branch though.
> 
> (6) nessus-libraries fails due to missing distfile. See earlier email,
>     this should IMO just be nucked.
> 
> Given that at least (4) is pretty high profile, I would like to see the
> bulk build finished and failures get evaluated. I'll keep you updated on
> that.

On Joerg's request and to have a better branch, the freeze is extended
for a week to Sunday, October 2, 23:59 UTC.
 Thomas