Re: libkpathsea3 removal: Please trigger bin-NMU recompilations of the following packages

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 02:23:04PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Dear release team,
>
>> libkpathsea3 is obsolete, and we're hoping to be able to remove it from
>> the archive for etch.  A couple of packages still depend on it.  Since
>> the API hasn't changed, and libkpathsea4-dev now provides
>> libkpathsea-dev, a rebuild of the package should be sufficient.
>
> I'm afraid not.  Because these packages build-depend on libkpathsea-dev (I
> assume -- I haven't reviewed all of them), and there is still a *real*
> libkpathsea-dev package in the archive, the autobuilders will prefer this
> real package instead of libkpathsea4-dev's Provides.

I tested in a sid pbuilder chroot: 

# apt-cache policy libkpathsea-dev
libkpathsea-dev:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.0-16
  Version table:
     3.0-16 0
        500 http://localhost sid/main Packages
root@riesling:/# apt-get install libkpathsea-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libkpathsea4
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libkpathsea-dev libkpathsea4
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 151kB of archives.
After unpacking 590kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 

and concluded that the only problem would be that some buildds might
have libkpathsea3's dev package already installed.

> If you remove libkpathsea-dev from the libkpathsea3 package (or drop
> libkpathsea3 altogether from unstable), then it should be possible to binNMU
> these

Dropping completely would be a task for the ftpmaster, correct?

> -- assuming they're all binNMU-safe.  (have you checked for that,
> btw?)

No, sorry, I didn't think about that - I'll will check it.  What are the
things to look for?  The only problem I'm aware of is when a source
package also builds arch-all packages and have =${Source-Version}
dependencies (or does Source-Version now discriminate between normal and
binNMUs?) 

TIA, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)