Re: Status of the netcdf transition
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:42:51AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:12:46PM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:21:59AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > > The netcdf transition 3.5.0-7.1 -> 3.6.0+3.6.1-beta3-0.1 seems to be
> > > blocking a lot of packages from entering testing. Is someone taking care
> > > of it? Is there a status report available somewhere?
>
> > RMs already hinted it. Unfortunately the new package missed a
> > compatibility package (it changed name) so it breaks as many packages as it allows
> > entering testing.
>
> * C++ ABI transition:
> - Rename netcdfg3 to libnetcdf3
> - Split out C++ library into it's own package libnetcdf++3 (closes: #346312).
>
> It changes name *because it's not compatible*. Providing a "compatibility"
> package here would be an RC bug, because it would falsely claim to satisfy
> dependencies that it does not.
>
Ah, i did not remember it was transitioned for the ABI change... Oh, well
> > The (new) maintainer said it is preparing a new upload to reintroduce the
> > missing package. The only other solutions is rebuilding all dependants
> > which would be removed from testing...
>
> Which is what you're *supposed* to do in a library transition. And what has
> been done; the only thing holding up netcdf now is for a few of the last
> uploaded packages to age in unstable.
>
> > That's AFAIK. We at DebianGis are all awaiting since a month or so :-/
>
> I thought you had been waiting a month for the gdal soname change in
> unstable...
>
No, we uploaded gdal last week of january and other (dependant) packages soon after.
Maybe bugging the remaining packages would be useful?
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Francesco P. Lovergine
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