Bug#760440: transition: cfitsio

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

On 10/09/14 18:26, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 06:46:04PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> 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
> 
> I haven't been able to reproduce the issue on two different machines. I
> have therefore requeued it, and it built successfully.
> 
>> and wcslib-contrib which probably needs
> 
> I have done manual binNMUs of wcslib-contrib on amd64 and i386

Great.

> 
>> manual rebuilds. I guess cfitsio3 doesn't need anything and will just be removed
>> after the transition is over.

OK.

> Yes, that's the plan, though we probably have to get the sid only
> packages to use the new library first. I have filled a RC bug to make
> sure it's not shipped with Jessie. Can you maybe add a removal hint when
> the transition is finished so it is at least removed from testing?

Sure.

Emilio