Bug#760440: transition: cfitsio
On 05/09/14 23:29, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 05:48:39PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> Control: tags -1 confirmed
>>
>> On 04/09/14 07:52, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>>> Package: release.debian.org
>>> Severity: normal
>>> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
>>> Usertags: transition
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to do a transition for the CFITSIO library. Upstream
>>> finally decided to support shared libraries and to ensure the soname
>>> will change if the ABI changes. This will makes the maintenance in
>>> Debian more easy and will avoid Debian specific changes to keep the ABI
>>> stable.
>>>
>>> I have uploaded a package with the new library to experimental 1.5
>>> months ago, and my plan was to fill the transition bug once the package
>>> reaches experimental. Unfortunately the package still sits into NEW
>>> despite a ping a few days ago. I am therefore filling this bug before
>>> the deadline in the hope we can still do this transition for Jessie.
>>>
>>> The API hasn't changed beside new functions, so this transition should
>>> be quite easy to handle via binNMUs only.
>>
>> Sounds good. Go ahead.
>
> Thanks, I have just uploaded it.
Things are looking good (see the tracker). The only remaining problems are
python-astropy which FTBFS on k-a, and wcslib-contrib which probably needs
manual rebuilds. I guess cfitsio3 doesn't need anything and will just be removed
after the transition is over.
Emilio
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