[Pkg-protobuf-devel] Bug#835170: transition: protobuf

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 00:45 +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 11:32:10 AM AEST Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> > > Dmitry, have you tested the reverse dependencies if they still build?
> 
> No... We will have to deal with fallout, if any... It is crucial to have 
> protobuf-3 from life cycle prospective. Also several golang dependencies 
> require protobuf v3 so upload actually allows to fix numerous problems.

That's not an excuse for causing disruption in unstable. There are other
packages that need transitions that I'm sure the maintainers also
believe are "crucial".

Regards,

Adam