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



Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl> writes:

> On 12/10/25 8:47 AM, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:
>> 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. 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.
>
> The transition tracker can use Recommends, see some old transitions for examples:
>
>  https://salsa.debian.org/release-team/transition-data/-/blob/master/old/jack.ben?ref_type=heads
>  https://salsa.debian.org/release-team/transition-data/-/blob/master/old/perl-5.40.ben?ref_type=heads
>  https://salsa.debian.org/release-team/transition-data/-/blob/master/old/postgresql-18.ben?ref_type=heads
>  https://salsa.debian.org/release-team/transition-data/-/blob/master/old/roaraudio.ben?ref_type=heads
>  https://salsa.debian.org/release-team/transition-data/-/blob/master/old/wxpython3.0.ben?ref_type=heads

Thanks. I guess I'm a bit surprised that that isn't the default.


 Best,
 Gard
 

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