Bug#1011369: transition: gromacs

[Nicholas Breen <nbreen@debian.org>]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition

This is perhaps more of a "recommended best practice" request than a
transition request.

gromacs has an upcoming library transition, staged in experimental, and
its next upload to sid will close one RC bug [1].  However, its only
direct build-dependency in testing is votca-csg, which has a pending RM
request [2].  votca-csg *can* be binNMUed against gromacs 2022.1, but
that's not terribly useful when it's about to be replaced.

Additionally, gromacs upstream dropped support for 32-bit architectures
in the new release, so that will need an additional RM bug for old
binaries, not yet filed.

Should I proceed with an upload to sid when a slot is ready, or wait for
one or both of those removals to clear first?

Thanks.


-- 
Nicholas Breen
nbreen@debian.org


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1009383
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1010502

Ben file:

title = "gromacs";
is_affected = .depends ~ "libgromacs6" | .depends ~ "libgromacs7";
is_good = .depends ~ "libgromacs7";
is_bad = .depends ~ "libgromacs6";