Bug#725951: transition: libgphoto2
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:40:45 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
>
> Hi,
>
> libgphoto2 is currently open for adoption and lag behind some versions
> (new versions that seems to fix some issues for some users, including
> me).
>
> Martin Pitt has aggreed to do a NMU/QA upload in debian with the latest
> version, as he did in Ubuntu (see: #711831).
>
> This will require a transition, unfortunately it will require sourceful
> uploads as the soname is in the name of the -dev package.
>
There's no reason to change the -dev package name, please keep
libgphoto2-2-dev. From IRC discussion pochu seems to prefer to make it
a transitional package; I don't think that's necessary, but I don't mind
either way.
> To quote Martin from the RFA bug:
>
> "
> It does change both ABI and API quite a bit, and thus needs a
> transition. I did that in Ubuntu, most rdepends work just fine, but
> gphotofs and gphoto2 need new upstream versions which work against
> 2.5.
> "
>
Does that mean the rest of the rdeps (in debian) can deal with the new
API with no source changes?
Cheers,
Julien
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