Hi Dne Mon, 4 Jun 2012 01:00:32 +0200 Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> napsal(a): > here's an extract of Artur's mail, telling us about the uncoordinated > rpm transition you started: > > Artur Rona <ari-tczew@tlen.pl> (02/06/2012): > > I've noticed that new revision of rpm source package has been > > uploaded this week and introduced new binary packages names. > > However, maintainer of rpm didn't let us know about that fact. The > > list of changed SONAME: > > librpm2 -> librpm3 > > librpmio2 -> librpmio3 > > librpmbuild2 -> librpmbuild3 > > librpmsign0 -> librpmsign1 > > Mehdi has set a tracker for those: > http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/rpm.html > > This is very unfortunate to have (yet another) uncoordinated transition, > *this late* in the release cycle… > > Especially since there was a libextractor transition, which (thankfully) > just finished, but that was a really near miss… and since that package > is also involved in the poppler transition… > > Next time, please coordinate with us, we have been trying to get the > message across during the past few years through messages to dda@, and > we have documentation on the process: > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions Sorry about that, my original plan was to upload it to experimental (and ask for transition later, but still preferably before freeze), but I messed it up (and did not notice till now). In case you would still prefer to avoid this transition, I can upload back older version. -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com
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