Re: heimdal

[Brian May <bam@snoopy.debian.net>]

Adeodato Simó wrote:
> The problem is that version of heimdal bumped the SONAME of one of the
> libraries, namely libkrb5-24-heimdal -> libkrb5-25-heimdal.
>
> Nowadays it's really encouraged that any SONAME bump is checked with the
> release team first. The release team needs to be notified anyway in
> order for to the new package to migrate, because it needs manual
> hinting, so we take chance and ask that this notification is done
> *before* uploading to unstable, in case there may be conflicting ongoing
> transitions.
>   
So can I clarify: you would like to let me know before I upload any 
package that comes with a SONAME bump?

(I am guessing dar is an exception here because nothing else links 
against its libraries except itself).

Brian May