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Re: Rebuild needed for libhtml-gumbo-perl



On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 19:43:25 +0100, Aymeric Agon-Rambosson wrote:

> > What is not beautiful is that the generated runtime dependency is
> > still "libgumbo2 (>= 0.12.3)". There seems to be some undocumented
> > API/ABI compatibility problem.
> There is, actually. I got word from upstream (https://codeberg.org/gumbo-parser/gumbo-parser/issues/3#issuecomment-2563384),
> a mere couple of hours after I send you the mail, that they should indeed
> have bumped the major version number to signal API/ABI breakage.

Ha :)
 
> In the meantime, they did bump the major version number. So I will shortly
> package 0.13.0, following the workflow in
> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions.

Excellent.
 
> > For the future: When a prepare a new release of gumbo-parser you
> > could test reverse dependencies and/or upload to experimental as a
> > first step.
> This is what I usually do, for instance for the update from 0.10.x to
> 0.12.0. But I assumed that it was unnecessary for 0.12.0 to 0.12.3
> (according to the rules of semantic versioning that upstream follows).

Makes sense.
 
> And I will do it now, since I now have to package 0.13.0.
> Sorry again for the trouble,

No worries, things like this happen.


Cheers,
gregor 

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