Bug#712204: transition: libitpp

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

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

Dear Release Team,

I have inadvertently started a transition with the latest upload of
libitpp to unstable. I'd like to apologise for this. I had not noticed
that a couple of packages have started using libitpp as a dependency.

To make things easier, I have verified that the two reverse
dependencies, viz. aghermann and mia, will build. There are issues,
however:

1. aghermann needs the pkg-config file for IT++ to be
installed. Unfortunately, a change in the upstream build system no
longer installs this file. A bug report has been filed upstream, and I
can upload a patched version to unstable to fix this issue.

2. mia has an RC bug (#705385) that is blocked by (#705495). A fix for
the latter seems to be available, though, so a resolution can be
expected shortly.

Please let me know the best way ahead. Thanks, and sorry for the
trouble.

Kumar

Ben file:

title = "libitpp";
is_affected = .depends ~ "libitpp7" | .depends ~ "libitpp8";
is_good = .depends ~ "libitpp8";
is_bad = .depends ~ "libitpp7";


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.3.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

-- 
Kumar Appaiah