It's been a long trip, and as usual not everything has gone according to
plan; but we are now nearing the point of being able to get the bulk of
the C++ ABI transition pushed into testing. At this point, most of the
packages waiting to be updated in testing are tied to this transition in
one way or another; including all of these libraries that are undergoing
ABI transitions:
arts
coin2
cppunit
dbus
dynamite
geos
flac
freetds
gdal
heartbeat
icu
imagemagick
jack-audio-connection-kit
kdelibs
kdemultimedia
kdepim
libfwbuilder
libkexif
libkipi
libmodplug
libmusicbrainz-2.1
libpqxx
libsidplay
libtunepimp
libxbase
openexr
orange
net-snmp
qscintilla
qt-x11-free
sablotron
sidplay-libs
taglib
unixodbc
vdk2
vdkxdb2
vtk
wv2
xbsql
xerces25
xerces26
As a result, any packages that have versions in testing and depend on
one of these libraries must be updated at the same time. For the first
time over the past months, we are now able to get a comprehensive look
at just which packages are involved in this transition -- around 300
source packages that need to be updated! As a result, the release
team asks that the maintainers refrain from uploads of these packages for
any reason without coordination with the release team, until this
transition completes; uncoordinated uploads will most likely lead to your
package being removed from testing to let the transition complete. For your
reference, a list of source packages known to be involved, grouped by
maintainer, is attached.
In addition, this transition is in danger of being tied to a very
untimely shlibs bump in libstdc++6, and the release team is working out
whether certain affected packages should be removed temporarily from
testing in order to avoid further delays. The list of those packages is
included as the second attachment to this mail.
If all goes well, we are very close to being able to get this monster
transition through, putting us over the hump on the C++ ABI change for
etch. Please continue coordinating with the release team before
starting any new library transitions, though, so that we don't find
testing wedged behind *another* such clump of libraries. :)
One other library transition that bears commenting at this point is the
libssl0.9.7->libssl0.9.8 transition, about which there has already been
a fair amount of discussion on debian-devel. This transition was not
anticipated by the release team, but libssl0.9.8 has reached testing so
there is no reason to worry about your package being rebuilt against
libssl0.9.8 instead of libssl.0.9.7. However, this does *not* mean that
you should do a sourceful upload of your package just for the libssl
transition -- least of all if your package is already tied up in another
lib transition. First, we are finding some problems with packages built
against the new libssl which appear to be bugs in the openssl package
itself, such that if you don't have another reason to upload, your users
are probably better served with libssl0.9.7 for the moment. Second,
thanks to some enhancements Ryan Murray has recently made to
buildd/wanna-build, it is now possible for the release team to request
automated buildd binNMUs of a package across all architectures for
library transitions, sparing maintainers the trouble of doing
rebuild-only sourceful uploads. As some of you have already discovered,
this is turning up bugs in packages that can't be binNMUed because of
arch: any packages which depend on (= ${Source-Version}) of an arch: all
package. Please help make future library transitions easier by making
sure your packages are binNMU-safe; the best way to do this currently is by
relaxing dependencies between arch: any and arch: all packages.
That's all the news for now; look forward to hearing more about the end
of the KDE transition and the first d-i beta for etch in the near
future!
--
Steve Langasek [vorlon@debian.org]
Debian Release Team
Packages that must be updated together as part of the C++ ABI transition, grouped by maintainer Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) <geiger@debian.org> jack-rack ladcca libjackasyn meterbridge puredata qjackctl snd stk Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.hu> libsidplay sidplay sidplay-base sidplay-libs tuxeyes xsidplay Michael Ablassmeier <abi@grinser.de> kstreamripper Ryuichi Arafune <arafune@debian.org> imagemagick Christian Bayle <bayle@debian.org> php4-mcrypt Romain Beauxis <toots@rastageeks.org> kshutdown Bradley Bell <btb@debian.org> kaptain Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org> icu vips Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org> cdcat A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org> icomlib vtk Regis Boudin <regis@boudin.name> tellico Jeremy T. Bouse <jbouse@debian.org> fwbuilder libfwbuilder Chris Boyle <cmb@debian.org> klogic Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> ifstat Paul Brossier <piem@debian.org> noteedit xmms-jackasyn Eric Van Buggenhaut <ericvb@debian.org> fluidsynth qsynth Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> tse3 Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> kdeedu kdesdk kile Ross Burton <ross@debian.org> sound-juicer Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org> knapster2 Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> alsaplayer Christopher L Cheney <ccheney@debian.org> taglib vorbis-tools Pierre Chifflier <chifflier@cpe.fr> esvn Volker Christian <voc@users.sourceforge.net> synce-kde Volker Christian <voc@debian.org> dynamite kcemirror orange unshield Paul Cupis <paul@cupis.co.uk> guarddog guidedog LI Daobing <lidaobing@gmail.com> qterm Debian Hamradio Maintainers <debian-hams@lists.debian.org> linpsk Debian Boost Team <pkg-boost-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org> boost Debian OpenOffice Team <debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org> oooqs Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org> arts kdeaccessibility kdeadmin kdeartwork kdebase kdebindings kdegames kdegraphics kdelibs kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdepim kdetoys kdeutils koffice qt-x11-free wv2 Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org> prestimel Peter Eisentraut <petere@debian.org> kdissert kmldonkey licq pinentry psqlodbc rekall Free Ekanayaka <free@agnula.org> clalsadrv creox jackeq Jarno Elonen <elonen@debian.org> agistudio Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> kover Helen Faulkner <helen@debian.org> kaquarium kcpuload kdoomsday kfish knetload labplot Bartosz Fenski <fenio@debian.org> imgseek moaggedit Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org> php4-idn Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de> mp3blaster net-snmp snmptrapfmt Gerfried Fuchs <alfie@debian.org> xmms-sid Mike Furr <mfurr@debian.org> terminatorx xmms-jack Igor Genibel <igenibel@debian.org> kexi John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> zsafe Miah Gregory <mace@debian.org> qbble Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org> bbconf icemc ksocrat mysql-navigator okle php4-interbase Debian XML/SGML Group <debian-xml-sgml-pkgs@lists.alioth.debian.org> libxml-xerces-perl xerces25 xerces26 Francois Gurin <matrix@debian.org> kismet Steve Halasz <debian@adkgis.org> geos qgis Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org> madman Andres Seco Hernandez <AndresSH@debian.org> swscanner Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> timidity Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> heartbeat Morten Hustveit <morten@debian.org> kwavecontrol Mark Hymers <mark.hymers@ncl.ac.uk> ifrit Masami Ichikawa <hangar-18@mub.biglobe.ne.jp> bookmarkbridge Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org> hotswap kmyfirewall Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> camstream klineakconfig ksensors ksimus ksimus-boolean ksimus-datarecorder ksimus-floatingpoint lineak-kdeplugins quiteinsane quiteinsanegimpplugin rt2400 rt2500 Robert Jordens <jordens@debian.org> bitscope gpib jack-audio-connection-kit jack-tools jamin libtunepimp syck timemachine Theodore Karkoulis <bilbo@debian.org> kbarcode Peter Karlsson <peterk@debian.org> turqstat Jean-Michel Kelbert <kelbert@debian.org> karamba kbiff komba2 Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> doxygen sqlrelay Gerd Knorr <kraxel@debian.org> krecord Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org> dx Jano Kupec <jkupec@zoznam.sk> albumshaper Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org> flac nethack Noèl Köthe <noel@debian.org> kde-i18n mbrowse openipmi Jeremy Lainé <jeremy.laine@m4x.org> kprof sailcut Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> drawtiming Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> freetds libdbd-sybase-perl myodbc php-imlib sqsh unixodbc Siggi Langauf <siggi@debian.org> xine-lib Andrew Lau <netsnipe@users.sourceforge.net> openexr Berin Lautenbach <berin@debian.org> xalan Simon Law <sfllaw@debian.org> wvstreams Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org> libpqxx Marc Leeman <marc.leeman@gmail.com> dvdauthor Rafal Lewczuk <rlewczuk@pronet.pl> xbsql Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org> cuyo Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez <anja_isbilia@yahoo.es> kdbg Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org> smb4k Eduardo Marcel Macan <macan@debian.org> specimen Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org> view3ds Debian ALSA Maintainers <pkg-alsa-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org> alsa-plugins Debian PHP Maintainers <pkg-php-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org> php-db php-http php-imap php-mail php-net-smtp php-net-socket php-xml-parser php4 php5 Pedro Jurado Maqueda <melenas@kdehispano.org> kiosktool Ivo Marino <eim@mentors.debian.net> libaudio-flac-header-perl Christopher Martin <chrsmrtn@debian.org> gwenview Peter Mathiasson <peterm@debian.org> gpgkeys Luis Mayoral <mayoral@linuxadicto.org> kompose Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org> kvdr Jose Carlos Medeiros <debian@psabs.com.br> php4-imagick Ricardo Javier Cardenes Medina <rcardenes@debian.org> python-qt3 qscintilla sip-qt3 sip4-qt3 Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org> tora Jonas Meurer <mejo@debian.org> lurker Samuel Mimram <smimram@debian.org> linphone Steffen Moeller <moeller@pzr.uni-rostock.de> qtdmm Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> phaseshift Juan Manuel Garcia Molina <juanma@debian.org> facturalux gkrellm-snmp ksociograma Gustavo R. Montesino <grmontesino@ig.com.br> libgda2 David L. Moreno <david.lopez.moreno@hispalinux.es> kimdaba Tommaso Moroni <moronito@debian.org> knights Oleksandr Moskalenko <malex@tagancha.org> scribus Sebastian Muszynski <do2ksm@linkt.de> kpsk Jan Niehusmann <jan@debian.org> psi qca qca-tls Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> php4-sqlite Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org> cheops Alejandro Exojo Piqueras <suy@badopi.org> konserve Zed Pobre <zed@debian.org> libmodplug modplugxmms xexec Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org> libsdl-sound1.2 Tomas Pospisek <tpo_deb@sourcepole.ch> xxdiff Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org> grass Mark Purcell <msp@debian.org> hpoj kfocus Arnaud Quette <aquette@debian.org> knutclient nut Filip Van Raemdonck <mechanix@debian.org> mdbtools Angel Ramos <seamus@debian.org> knetfilter krusader Silke Reimer <silke.reimer@intevation.de> gdal Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> moc Steve M. Robbins <smr@debian.org> coin2 kseg pdftoipe soqt Jaime Robles <jaime@debian.org> klog José L. Redrejo Rodríguez <jredrejo@edu.juntaextremadura.net> gambas Andreas Rottmann <rotty@debian.org> libmusicbrainz-2.1 Ludovic Rousseau <rousseau@debian.org> xcardii Miriam Ruiz <little_miry@yahoo.es> avida Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> libmusicbrainz-ruby Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> graveman Bruno Sant'Anna <brunocesar@ajato.com.br> apollon Eike Sauer <eikes@cs.tu-berlin.de> kdiff3 Pasi Savilaakso <pasi.savilaakso@pp.inet.fi> valknut Christoffer Sawicki <qerub@home.se> gtk-qt-engine Mike Schacht <mschacht@alumni.washington.edu> kdirstat Daniel Schepler <schepler@debian.org> qtads David Schleef <ds@schleef.org> ktimetrace Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu> cynthiune.app Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org> wireless-tools Radu Spineanu <radu@timisoara.roedu.net> fet Joop Stakenborg <pa3aba@debian.org> hamfax marote qsstv unixcw Uwe Steinmann <steinm@debian.org> netmrg php4-ps Al Stone <ahs3@debian.org> oprofile James Stone <jmstone@dsl.pipex.com> rlplot Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org> sablotron Jose Luis Tallon <jltallon@adv-solutions.net> kcheckgmail picwiz Debian KDE Extras Team <pkg-kde-extras@lists.alioth.debian.org> libkexif libkipi D-Bus Maintainance Team <debian-dbus@fooishbar.org> dbus Debian VoIP Team <pkg-voip-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org> kphone Frank S. Thomas <frank@thomas-alfeld.de> kboincspy Tobias Toedter <t.toedter@gmx.net> qbrew James Troup <james@nocrew.org> filelight Nathaniel W. Turner <nate@houseofnate.net> konversation Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org> ecasound2.2 Thibaut VARENE <varenet@debian.org> libapache-mod-musicindex Robin Verduijn <robin@debian.org> kvirc Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> libxbase vdk2 vdkxdb2 Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi> gmod Christoph Wegscheider <christoph.wegscheider@wegi.net> potracegui David N. Welton <davidw@debian.org> tclmagick Torsten Werner <twerner@debian.org> animal Eric Wong <eric@petta-tech.com> mpd Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org> pyflac pymodplug Anton Zinoviev <zinoviev@debian.org> kbedic Marco van Zwetselaar <zwets@zwets.com> qtstalker sean finney <seanius@debian.org> cacti-cactid Maintainers of GStreamer packages <pkg-gstreamer-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org> gst-plugins0.8 Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) <sam+deb@zoy.org> allegro4.1 eric pareja <xenos@upm.edu.ph> kxstitch
Packages being considered for removal from testing to allow the C++ ABI transition to complete, grouped by maintainer J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org> pstoedit Enrique Robledo Arnuncio <era@debian.org> rosegarden4 Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net> libextractor Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> kdeaddons Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org> tulip Peter Eisentraut <petere@debian.org> xmms-kde Khalid El Fathi <invent@edena-fr.org> mypasswordsafe Peter Hawkins <peterh@debian.org> libqt-perl Mark Hymers <mark.hymers@ncl.ac.uk> kst Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen@pcu.helsinki.fi> imview Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> keybled Theodore Karkoulis <bilbo@debian.org> kxdocker kxdocker-data Jean-Michel Kelbert <kelbert@debian.org> superkaramba Roman Kreisel <roman.kreisel@web.de> krename Kari Pahula <kari@sammakko.yok.utu.fi> droidbattles Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org> wordtrans Alejandro Exojo Piqueras <suy@badopi.org> kxmleditor Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org> mapserver Nick Rusnov <nickrusnov@debian.org> ale Adeodato Simó <asp16@alu.ua.es> amarok Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) <sam+deb@zoy.org> langdrill
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