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Re: Bug#414124: linux-ntfs is not binNMU safe (was: Upload of fuse to t-p-u, binNMUs required)



On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:29:57AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> >> 2. linux-ntfs

> >>    builds lots of binary packages, but there is only one with
> >>    interdependencies:

> >> Package: libntfs9
> >> Section: libs
> >> Architecture: any
> >> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
> >> ...
> >> Package: libntfs-dev
> >> Section: libdevel
> >> Architecture: any
> >> Depends: libntfs9 (= ${Source-Version})

> If linux-ntfs were bin-NMU'ed, libntfs9 and libntfs-dev would be present
> with version 1.13.1-6.0.1, but libntfs-dev would depend on libntfs9 ( =

1.13.1-6+b1, not 1.13.1-6.0.1.  (surely this is documented everywhere by
now?)

> 1.13.1-6).  The changes to make it binNMU safe are described on
> http://wiki.debian.org/binNMU. 

(well, it's at least documented on the page you referenced. :)

> This would mean to use the following patch

<snip>

looks good to me.

> > The udeb isn't an /immediate/ problem, that I can see.  We could even get
> > away with having just the one package left in etch with wrong deps, if it
> > came to that.  If you want this fixed, though, please coordinate with the
> > maintainer to get uploads to both unstable and testing-proposed-updates
> > fixing the ${Source-Version} dependency.  Integration into etch will still
> > be subject to Frans's approval.

> The upload to t-p-u is necessary because fuse in sid has a new upstream
> version, and a package compiled against this version cannot propagate to
> etch.  vorlon suggested version numbers 1.13.1-7 for unstable and
> 1.13.1-6+etch1 for testing-proposed-updates.  I think -7 must be
> uploaded first.

Yes.  (Was that the only question?)

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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