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

Robert Edmonds edmonds at debian.org
Wed Aug 24 02:02:04 UTC 2016


Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 8:51:23 PM AEST Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > That's not an excuse for causing disruption in unstable.
> 
> I'm not sure when it is OK to cause disruption in unstable. For example
> uploading new GCC seems to cause a lot of problems despite attempts to
> mitigate FTBFS.

It's a very easy rule for protobuf, since protobuf has a non-trivial set
of reverse build-dependencies: every ABI bump for protobuf needs a
corresponding, coordinated ABI transition.

For previous protobuf transitions (2.5.0, 2.6.0), please review #726165
and #760343. It's not as simple as just uploading a new release to
unstable. Probably it should have been uploaded to experimental first,
to check that the package would build and pass its test suite on all
architectures. (E.g., see #572923 for an example of
architecture-specific breakage in protobuf.)

> Also do you have a clue why protobuf FTBFS on build servers? I'm unable to
> reproduce the problem...

I built it on amd64 in an up-to-date sid pbuilder chroot and it failed
in the same manner as it did on all the buildd's.

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Robert Edmonds
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