Bug#672142: transition: allegro4.4

[Tobias Hansen <tobias.han@gmx.de>]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition

I want to request a transition slot for the allegro4.2 -> allegro4.4
transition. allegro4.2 is orphaned and Andreas Rönnquist and myself packaged allegro4.4.
We are not Debian Developers, so we don't know when someone from the Games team
will review and upload allegro4.4. The discussion on the Games team mailing list is [1,2,3].

These are the affected packages in Debian unstable:

  libdumb
  guichan
  alogg
  wing
  stax
  rafkill
  overgod
  open-invaders
  liquidwar
  garden-of-coloured-lights
  excellent-bifurcation
  alex4
  kraptor
  kball
  ballz
  atanks

They all were tested to build fine with allegro4.4, if liballegro4.4-dev
gets a 'Provides: liballegro4.2-dev', except
  open-invaders - builds fine after #668815 is fixed
  alogg - FTBFS, but I think this one can be removed, see #671378

The transition should work like this:

- Upload allegro4.4, remove allegro4.2 and libalogg1.
- binNMUs for the libraries libdumb and guichan.
- binNMUs for the other reverse dependencies.

Best regards,
Tobias Hansen

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2012/05/msg00002.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2012/05/msg00003.html
[3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2012/05/msg00004.html


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