Bug#698778: preapproval of expect/5.45-3

[Sergei Golovan <sgolovan@nes.ru>]

Hi again!

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Sergei Golovan <sgolovan@nes.ru> wrote:
>
> expectk has two reverse dependencies in squeeze: exmh (suggests)
> xsmbrowser (depends). Both are removed from wheezy and sid.
>
> Currently, update expect from squeeze (5.44.1.15-4) to wheezy (5.45-2)
> goes silently, leaving expectk broken (/usr/bin/expectk fails to run
> with the following message: /usr/bin/expectk: error while loading
> shared libraries: libexpect.so.5.44.1.15: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory). If exmh is installed it continues
> working, though I'm not sure if somewhere deep exmh will not try to
> run no more working expectk. xsmbrowser fails immediately with the
> same message as expectk (bug #686364).
>
> Dist-upgrade to proposed 5.45-3 removes expectk and xsmbrowser (if
> they are installed). It's a desirable behavior as neither package
> works with expect 5.45-*. exmh stays and runs.
>
> I didn't try full upgrate from squeeze to wheezy, just these four
> packages (expect, expectk, xambrowser, exmh) in wheezy. I think that
> the proposed 5.45-3 behaves better than 5.45-2 on upgrade.

Should I proceed with upload, or it's better to leave this bug till after
wheezy release?

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan