Hi, I just realized that transitions like the upcoming FFMPEG SONAME bump [1] only pick up for binNMU packages that *depend* on the libraries being bumped. Is there a mechanism for automatic binNMUs for packages that only recommend/suggest a library being bumped? I specifically have waypipe in mind. It currently recommends libavcodec61, and will attempt to dlopen it at runtime (aside: I'd prefer just linking, but I haven't wished to diverge from upstream). If it fails, waypipe will still be functional, but with reduced features. After a rebuild post-transition, it would instead recommend libavcodec62, but it's as far as I understand not captured by the transition's automatic binNMUs (it's still shown in the transition's list of affected packages, but I believe that's just because an old version still lingers on riscv64 that actually links with the library). This has probably been discussed before, but I've been unable to find it; what's the appropriate way to trigger automatic binNMUs for such packages? The only idea I've had is to either promote the Recommends to Depends, or to add an empty dummy binary from the same source that does depend. Or did I just misunderstand something? [1] https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-ffmpeg.html Best, Gard
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