Re: [RFC] Breaking britney2's backward compatibility

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 15:10 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> > List of old libraries in testing (53):
> >   libsaml6: i386 amd64 armel ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
> >   libxmltooling4: i386 amd64 armel ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
> >   libxml-security-c15: i386 amd64 armel ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
> 
> If one removed those from testing, it would make shibboleth-sp2
> uninstallable in testing.  They're all old because they're all blocked on
> migrating to testing because shibboleth-sp2 doesn't build on unstable due
> to a g++ bug on armel.

Indeed - that's largely why they're appearing in the list. :-)  "Old" in
this case means "no longer produced by a source in testing".

The above is the result of a "non-compatible" run, in which opensaml2
2.4.3-1, xmltooling 1.4.2-1 and xml-security-c 1.6.1-1 migrated, with
the old libraries being held in testing until shibboleth-sp2 can also
migrate and nothing remains in testing which depends on the old set of
libraries.

Regards,

Adam