Re: Please approve the managed Mono 2.0 transition
* Mirco Bauer [Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:45:23 +0100]:
> Dear Release Team,
> over the last 2 months we have worked hard to get important changes [0]
> into Mono packages. The Mono 2.0 packages are ABI-wise backwards
> compatible but packages using it need updated build-deps [1].
> We have transitioned all application packages in experimental [2] (except 5
> packages left with patches in the BTS, which we will NMU soonish as the
> maintainers seem MIA (debian QA already informed)). The library packages
> using Mono need to be transitioned too, but we will do this in unstable.
> Most packages are arch:all and thus no binNMU are needed, instead just
> updated build-dep and upload.
> Almost all CLI library packages [3] are maintained in the
> pkg-cli-libs team and thus no big delays are to be expected there.
> As part of this managed transitioned we are tracking _all_ packages that
> rely on Mono during the build in some way and produces some kind of
> assembly [4]. Communication with the OpenOffice.org and KDE teams and
> active maintainers has worked very well. (KDE team even helped to get Mono
> buildd-able for packages using Mono 2.0 in debian/experimental, kudos to
> them!)
> So can I get approval to upload the mono 2.0.1-4 [5]
> packages from experimental to unstable?
As said on IRC, please go forward with this transition. Apparently you
have all the details well covered, which is very kind of you!
Cheers,
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