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Upcoming libgpm transition



Hi,

I've just uploaded a new upstream gpm version to experimental, it
bumps the SONAME, and this is needed to fix an RC bug(s). From the
changelog:

  [...]
  * Debian broke ABI compatibility with upstream long time ago, the patch
    got merged upstream recently but the new field was added in a different
    place in the structure. With the new 1.20.3~pre3 release Debian had
    to be either incompatible with previous Debian gpm versions or with
    upstream again, but quite helpfully upstream bumped the SONAME.
    (Closes: #412927, #470882, #473496, #476431)
    - Add a new libgpm2 and libgpm-dev packages.
    - Remove the libgpmg1 package.
    - Make the libgpmg1-dev a dummy package to ease the transition.
  [...]

This will only require binNMUs. So please tell us when it'd be fine to
upload to unstable, although it will have to leave from NEW first.

thanks.
guillem


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