please remove 'timeout' from Maverick

[Fabien Tassin]

debian dropped 'timeout', which is now shipped within 'coreutils' (with a -too- simple Conflicts).
we have both, so all packages with a build-dep on 'timeout' are unbuildable.

'coreutils' should probably provide a dummy upgrade package to prevent unneeded FTBFS.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Moving to tct

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

AIUI, Debian just removed the timeout binary from its archive rather than creating a 0.19-2 tct source that doesn't ship the timeout binary. Not sure why they did that, but this should be fixed in Debian and sync'd to maverick. I am going to unsubscribe ubuntu-archive for now. If this is an emergency, we can remove the binary temporarily, with the understanding that a fixed source is forthcoming.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

This is actually holding up the chromium-browser build for maverick, which is security relevant.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

$ lp-remove-package.py -u jdstrand -m "timeout binary provided in coreutils. LP: #591758" -b timeout
2010-06-11 20:22:02 INFO Creating lockfile: /var/lock/launchpad-lp-remove-package.lock
2010-06-11 20:22:11 INFO Removing candidates:
2010-06-11 20:22:11 INFO timeout 1.19-1 in maverick amd64
2010-06-11 20:22:11 INFO timeout 1.19-1 in maverick armel
2010-06-11 20:22:11 INFO timeout 1.19-1 in maverick i386
2010-06-11 20:22:11 INFO timeout 1.19-1 in maverick ia64
2010-06-11 20:22:11 INFO timeout 1.19-1 in maverick powerpc
2010-06-11 20:22:11 INFO timeout 1.19-1 in maverick sparc
2010-06-11 20:22:11 INFO Removed-by: Jamie Strandboge
2010-06-11 20:22:11 INFO Comment: timeout binary provided in coreutils. LP: #591758
2010-06-11 20:22:11 INFO 6 packages successfully removed.
Confirm this transaction? [yes, no] yes
2010-06-11 20:22:20 INFO Transaction committed.
2010-06-11 20:22:20 INFO The archive will be updated in the next publishing cycle.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

I've removed the binary. Please follow-up in Debian to fix up tct going forward.