Bug#850422: Are you sure you want to upload a release candidate of a new version of h5py?
On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 23:38 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Gianfranco,
>
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 09:33:31PM +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> > > > I wonder whether you want to upload this version of h5py to unstable
> > > > (rather than to experimental) since this seems to be a transition
> > > > and we are in transition freeze.
> > > >
> > >
> > > What do you mean by transition ? h5py has no abi and the changelog does not mention any API breakage. Unless you had something else in mind ?
> >
> > I also looked at the diff, and I didn't find ABI breakage...
> > did you see something I missed?
>
> I mean that
>
> $ apt-cache rdepends python-h5py | wc -l
> 34
>
> packages depend from this package and I was burned by a similar issue
> when python-numpy was breaking one of my packages and other Debian
> Science members packages as well. So did you tested whether all those
> rdepends will work with the new version?
Oh, I see what you are referring to. I am afraid I have not, and I am
putting my faith on upstream staying as conservative as they have been
with their releases since version 2.4.
I reckon a transition has never been needed for h5py since I took over
its maintenance, and I am crossing my fingers this won't be the case
for its 34 rdepends now (compared to 403 for numpy nonetheless).
Ghis
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