On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:11:04PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> I'd like to suggest ithat you upload again to experimental, but having
> libode-dev Provide: libode0-dev. Then you ask reverse dependencies for
> feedback, in particular if they can be recompiled without any source
> change and continue to work. If that's the case, we keep the Provides
> when uploading to unstable, and do binNMUs. Only if *all* reverse
> dependencies need source changes to compile with the new version it'd be
> okay to drop the Provides when uploading to unstable.
>
> Once the transition is done (and only then), you can submit bugs at
> non-RC severity against your reverse dependencies asking for a change
> libode0-dev -> libode-dev in their Build-Dependencies, and you can drop
> the provides once all bugs are fixed *and migrated to testing*.
>
> Does this sound doable to you?
ok, it's a much better plan. I added the Provides: in freshly uploaded
ode 0.11-3.
> Also, it would be really nice if you could mail -release to get a spot
> for this transition, like everybody else. From a quick look it's quite
> an isolated transition, so it should be able to get the "go" very soon.
Fine,
Thank you for your valuable feedback and sorry for the noise.
Best regardsn
Gonéri
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