Re: calm: Unable to upload poco-1.7.5

[David Stacey <drstacey@tiscali.co.uk>]

On 07/09/16 22:47, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 07/09/2016 19:30, David Stacey wrote:
>> I'm trying to upload poco-1.7.5 and delete poco-1.6.1-2. Part of this
>> involves removing the directory libpoco31, as there has been an ABI
>> bump, and this is where I'm failing.
>>
>> I've tried creating empty '-libpoco31-1.6.1-2.tar.xz' and '-setup.hint'
>> files (in a bid to delete both), but calm won't let me remove a
>> setup.hint file. So I tried a setup.hint just containing 'skip:' and
>> deleting the lib package as before, but that didn't work. Finally, I
>> tried creating a '-libpoco31' directory, but calm wouldn't take that
>> either.
>>
>> Please could you advise how I should delete older 'lib' sub-packages
>> that are no longer required.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
> At the moment, there is no good way of completely removing a package, 
> even when nothing depends on it.
>
> For the moment, if you leave libpoco31-1.6.1-2 and the corresponding 
> source-package alone, you should be able to proceed with your upload.
>
> I'll make a note to clean up libpoco31 when the 'good way' of doing 
> that is implemented.

Thank you for your help, Jon. I've done as you requested, leaving 
libpoco31-1.6.1-2 and its source package behind. These can be removed 
the next time someone has a tidy up.

>> Secondly, I'm trying to upload the noarch package 'poco-doc'. calm isn't
>> taking this, despite creating a '/noarch/!ready' file. I'm not getting
>> any helpful message from calm regarding this one - it eats the !ready
>> cookie, but doesn't upload the files. I've obviously made some mistake
>> with this one, but I can't spot it.
>
> It looks like these were not moved as that was part of the save calm 
> run as your other failures above.
>
> calm will not move any of your uploaded package if there is a problem 
> with any of them (it seems that to do otherwise could lead to an 
> unexpected package set)

OK, thanks for clarifying.

> I set this to be re-tried and it seems to have succeeded.


Thanks for giving it a poke. Yes, I confirm that it has been uploaded.

Dave.