Bug#1108275: libmad: New version from the tenacity team

[Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com>]

Hi Andreas,

Am 2026-01-09 08:22, schrieb Andreas Tille:
> I've prepared the new version in Git[1].  Unfortunately the new version
> is not ABI compatible with the current version in Debian and thus we
> seem to need a SOVERSION bump[2] and a transition.  (The API seems to 
> be
> unchanged so the transition should be smoothly.)  Thus I intend to
> upload to experimental first (the package needs to pass the new queue
> due to a name change).

could you elaborate in which way the ABI changed?

Could you bring this issue up to the new upstream and ask them for a 
coordinated SONAME bump (or revert the ABI changing changes)?

> Before I do so I would welcome some review.  I decided to also rename
> the -dev package and drop the version from it (just libmad-dev).

Sounds like a good idea!

Cheers,

 - Fabian