Re: Help with upgrading libflickrnet
Hi Mirco,
On Sat, 22 Aug, 2009 at 07:30:10PM +0200, Mirco Bauer wrote:
> Hi Varun,
>
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:51:56 -0400
> Varun Hiremath <varun@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi Micro,
>
> I am not that small *cough*
I am extremely sorry about that typo.
> > Hmm.. but, won't the old 2.1.5 binary package be removed from the
> > archive once we upload this new version, since the source package name
> > is the same?
>
> Yes, the archive admins are regularly running cleanup processes that
> will remove binary packages that are not build by and source package.
>
> This is expected and still will allow a smooth upgrade path for all
> users that have the old version installed and now can install the new
> version without the need of waiting for a completed transition.
>
> Renaming a library package introduces implicitly a transition, all
> rdeps have to be rebuild (and updated build-deps in our case).
Ok, in that case since all the rdeps: f-spot, dfo and gnome-do-plugins
are under the pkg-cli-apps team, can I upload this new version to
unstable and then update these rdeps accordingly? Should I do some
other tests before uploading libflickrnet2.2-cil to unstable.
I already built dfo and f-spot with the new version and there weren't
any problems but I'm not sure about runtime issues.
> > Could you please point me to some policy page which
> > explains this upgrade process for binary package name change? I
> > couldn't find anything on Google.
>
> That's a good question, I don't know any that covers the library
> transitioning part. The simple rename case is described here though:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#s5.9.3
Thanks, I actually looked at that section, but I wasn't sure if it was
referring to change in source package name or binary package name.
Thanks,
Varun
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