Re: xine-lib transition: packages must depend on libxine1-x or libxine1-console, as needed
I demand that Sandro Tosi may or may not have written...
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 17:44, Darren Salt
><linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Debian Python Modules Team <python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>
>> pyxine
> ...
>> Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>
>> pyxine (U)
> We only build-dep on "libxine-dev" and depends are brought in by substvar,
> so a binNMU should be enough to update dependencies.
No; you need to explicitly depend on libxine1-x or libxine1-console, or
packages which depend on python-pyxine must depend on one of these. This
can't be brought in by substvar via binNMU because nothing in libxine-dev can
know or determine whether $source_package requires X output plugins or
console output plugins.
We could use substvars, but they'd have to be used to differentiate not
between libxine1-console and libxine1-x but between libxine1-* and
libxine2-*. I'll see what can be done; for now, just saying "libxine1-x" or
"libxine1-console" in the appropriate Depends header is fine, and won't break
things unless you try to build using xine-lib-1.2 (which won't be uploaded to
unstable before we've done an upstream release).
> Feel free to coordinate this with release team and others who need them.
As and when it becomes necessary to do so to get this done in time for the
release of squeeze. Adding a dependency on either of libxine1-{x,console}
won't affect things since the dependency is currently indirectly there
anyway; it's more a matter of not having packages pull in console- or
X-related packages if they're not needed, and so long as these dependencies
remain in libxine1{,-plugins}, this isn't a disruptive change which requires
coordination other than just making sure that all affected packages are
updated first.
I intend to wait until all listed packages which need to be updated are
updated and the updated versions present in testing before completing this
transition; there's nothing that I can see in it which will block migration
if it's completed as part of normal uploads.
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