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Re: intent to do a poppler transition



On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:29:59PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> > 0.5.4-2 is in experimental (i386) and can be used as base for
> > transition.

> Well, we can use them as a base for testing.  However, it seems as if
> starting the transition would be a bit premature.  I have seen a couple
> of questions that are not yet answered:

> - Since the API changed, shouldn't the -dev package change its name, or
>   is this information in the Library Packaging Guide controversial?

Yes, this is a very controversial recommendation in the library packaging
guide.  The recommendation there is to change the -dev package name for
*any* API changes, no matter how small a subset of reverse-dependencies may
be affected.  If there are 9 packages build-depending on poppler, 8 of them
can be binNMUed and one of them requires source changes to work with the new
version, it's not an effective use of developer resources to impose a -dev
package name change that will force maintainers of all 9 packages to make
sourceful uploads.

> - In any case, shouldn't we carefully check all affected packages,
>   whether they FTBFS and whether they still work?  This would IMO
>   require a phase where all of them are in experimental, except poppler
>   itself in case it gets a new dev package name.

Yes, given the current release schedule, this new libpoppler transition will
only be considered for etch if someone does rebuild and test all the
reverse-dependencies, providing any necessary patches and documenting these
to the release team.

This doesn't require uploading all of the packages to experimental; anyone
wishing to work on this transition can do so in the environment of their
choice and report the results to debian-release and the BTS.

Thanks,
-- 
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Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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