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Bug#868378: RFS: nlohmann-json/2.1.1-1



Hello Christian,

thanks for pointing that out!

On 07/16/2017 08:47 AM, Christian Seiler wrote:
> This will likely break builds of reverse dependencies because they
> might not find the header anymore. Did you test all of the reverse
> dependencies of nlohmann-json in the archive that they'll find the
> header in the new location? If some of them don't, you should file
> bugs against those packages (ideally with patches) that the
> maintainers know about this change. [1]
There are two reverse dependencies atm, usbguard and mkvtoolnix. I've
removed the build-dependency from usbguard, because it was not needed
anymore and i've filed bug #868573 against mkvtoolnix and attached a patch.

Not sure if that qualifies as a library transition if its only one
package, especially as mkvtoolnix doesn't FTBFS with the new
nlohmann-json package (because it ships its own copy os the json.hpp
file which it falls back to if the system one is not found...)

cheers,
muri

> 
> Also, if the current packages can't auto-detect the new location
> (i.e. they start to FTBFS with your new package), then this is
> technically a library transition, so you should follow the
> guidelines for those:
> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions
> 
> Regards,
> Christian
> 
> [1] List of reverse depends (since this is a header-only library):
>     grep-dctrl -s Package -F Build-Depends,Build-Depends-Indep \
>         nlohmann-json-dev /var/lib/apt/lists/*Sources
>     (You need sid in your sources.list and a recent apt-get update
>     to ensure this is up to date.)
> 

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