[Pkg-cups-devel] Small library transition: libcupsys2 -> libcups2

[Adeodato Simó]

* Martin Pitt [Sun, 25 May 2008 16:45:20 +0200]:

> Hi Adeodato,

Hello,

> Adeodato Simó [2008-05-24 17:06 +0200]:
> > You provide a transitional package for the libcupsys2 library (yay),
> > which means that transitioning this to testing will be completely
> > painless (because there'll be both libcupsys2 and libcups2 in testing,
> > and rebuilt packages will migrate as they become ready).

> I actually don't like this, but since we do not have versioned
> Provides:, I'd immediately break existing reverse versioned
> dependencies without one.

Right; since this is not a real SONAME bump, I muchly prefer for it to
be done this way, thanks.

> >   * Regarding libcupsys2-dev, 7 packages have a *versioned*
> >     build-dependency on it, which means 7 RC bugs (since libcupsys2-dev
> >     has no transitional package, only a Provides). If you'd agree to
> >     file them, and NMU after a while the unfixed ones, that'd be great.
> >     If not, maybe a transitional package would be better?

> Right, I'll provide a transitional package.

Ok, good.

> >   * Since I guess your intention is for all the libcupsys2-dev
> >     build-dependencies to eventually disappear, will you be doing a mass
> >     bug filing at a low severity? If so, I think we can skip doing
> >     binNMUs at this stage, since many packages will need an upload for
> >     this anyway. Later on, when all uploads have happened, we can binNMU
> >     the remaining stuff.

> I intended to file bugs for doing that transition, since it's less
> than 10.

Hm. I count 6 packages Depending: libcupsys2-dev, but *28* Build-Depending
on it...

In any case, it doesn't matter much to us, since these won't be RC bugs.

Cheers,

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Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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