Bug#1016706: transition: GNOME 43 mega libsoup3 transition

[Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>]

On 2022-08-29 18:23:37 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> Control: tags -1 -moreinfo
> 
> The entangled libraries have been reduced to only:
> - evolution-data-server
> - geocode-glib
> - gnome-online-accounts (no soname bump)
> - libgweather4 (nosoname bump)
> - librest
> 
> These are the auto-trackers:
> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-evolution-data-server.html
> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-geocode-glib.html
> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-librest.html
> 
> Removals
> =======
> These packages need to be removed from Testing:
> https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=pkg-gnome-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org&tag=evolution-3.46
> cawbird is already in Sid only.
> chatty also has a reverse dependency of meta-phosh. If chatty isn't fixed
> in time, we'll
> update meta-phosh to lower the Depends to Recommends.
> 
> Sourceful Uploads
> ===============
> To attempt to reduce breakage if apps try to use libsoup2 and libsoup3
> simultaneously, I am adding breaks against apps that use more than one
> library. And I will do sourceful uploads of these packages to bump their
> dependencies:
> - evolution-data-server
> - geocode-glib
> - gnome-online-accounts
> - libgweather4
> - librest
> - bijiben
> - evolution
> - evolution-ews
> - geary
> - gnome-calendar
> - gnome-clocks
> - gnome-control-center
> - gnome-initial-setup
> - gnome-maps
> - gnome-panel
> - gnome-settings-daemon
> - gnome-shell
> - gnome-software
> This means that most of the transition will need to migrate together.

In that case, this transition is currently blocked on the uncoordinated
abseil transition.

Cheers

> 
> The rest of the packages on the auto trackers will need to be binNMU'd.
> 
> We successfully completed this transition in Ubuntu today.
> 
> On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
> Jeremy Bicha

-- 
Sebastian Ramacher