On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 13:46:16 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > I notice that Ubuntu has gone ahead with a lot of library renames. Did > the Ubuntu developers doing these uploads test the results, or did you > just "upload and hope"? One reason I have held back from doing more NMUs > is that for the majority of transitioning packages, I have no idea how > to smoke-test the results, and I'm not happy with putting my signature > on a package that I haven't tested. However, if we're going for a lower > standard of "successfully rebuilding the package and some random rdeps > is enough testing", then there are quite a lot of NMUs that can be done. > I'm planning on doing that. I don't think there's a way we can get this transition done in finite time without being aggressive about NMUs. Cheers, Julien
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