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Re: RFS: libconfig (requires transition)



On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 15:00:23 +0000, Jonathan McCrohan wrote:

> On 27/01/12 19:23, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:24:56 +0000, Jonathan McCrohan wrote:
> > 
> >> Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Please don't change the -dev package name.
> >> 
> >> All of the packages except one have versioned Build-depends on 
> >> libconfig8-dev. Surely this needs to be replaced with
> >> libconfig-dev or at least libconfig9-dev?
> >> 
> > No it doesn't?  You can rename the -dev package to libconfig-dev if
> > you want, but certainly don't *need* to, and if you do it, then it
> > would be way better from our point of view to keep building
> > libconfig8-dev as a transitional package until the reverse deps are
> > updated, and to do that separately from the SONAME bump.
> 
> If its ok, I'll leave the package as is.
> 
Sigh.

> To clarify, what is the process for this transition? Will the package
> be uploaded to experimental to allow me to report bug reports and
> patches against dependant packages?
> 
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking.

Cheers,
Julien

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