Re: Upcoming libgpm transition

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 10:00:48 +0300, Guillem Jover wrote:
> 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.

gpm has just been accepted into experimental.

thanks.
guillem