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Re: Automatic binNMUs for packages which recommend/suggest a library undergoing a SONAME bump transition



Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 10:25:09PM +0100, Gard Spreemann wrote:
>>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?
>
> There is no mechanism for automatic binNMUs for packages that depend on it
> either :) It's done by the Release Team manually based on the package list
> generated on the transition tracker page.

Good point :-)

> So what you want can be done either by making a similar tool and
> integrating it into the Release Team workflows, or, probably, changing
> the transition tracker condition for your specific library (ffmpeg) to
> also match Recommends. I don't think most of other shared library
> packages are in some Recommends.

Right. Thanks!


 Best,
 Gard

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