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Re: Verify the library transition



On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 2:27 PM Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 01:19:04PM -0400, Tong Sun wrote:
> > I'm currently helping with the library transition for libgit2-dev.
> Then I would expect you to ask the maintainers for coordination and/or
> help.
>
> > This is the first time I'm doing the library transition so I'm
> > following the library transition steps on the Debian wiki, i.e. doing
> > exactly as what the wiki tells me to do, or at least what I understand
> > from it, instead of inventing steps on my own. So far I've tried to
> > build a few packages that depend on it, like calligra.
> Do you mean https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions ? "Test
> rebuild reverse dependencies" is not verbose enough to "do exactly as what
> the wiki tells me to do".

"or at least what I understand from it".

That's exactly the problem. It is not verbose enough so I had to make
a guess, and apparently my guess was wrong.

> > But I'd only been using sbuild to build sid packages previously, where
> > can I find the doc on how to add an experimental build-dep to sbuild's
> > build process?
> https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild#Enabling_experimental

Greate. Thanks for all your helps!


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