Bug#753079: transition: librime
On 01/07/14 14:24, Guo Yixuan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 29/06/14 19:31, Guo Yixuan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
> wrote:
>>>> On 2014-06-29 05:34, Guo Yixuan (郭溢譞) wrote:
>>>>> Package: release.debian.org
>>>>> Severity: normal
>>>>> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
>>>>> Usertags: transition
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Release Team,
>>>>>
>>>>> We're planning to upload a new version of librime, which has ABI/API
>>>>> breaks. The affected packages are few, and all under IME team's
>>>>> maintenance, and we're mostly ready to have sourceful upload for
>>>>> these packages:
>>>>>
>>>>> Source: fcitx-rime
>>>>> Source: ibus-rime
>>>>>
>>>>> Ben file:
>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Could you please upload the new version of librime to experimental?
>>>> This should automatically generate a simple tracker for your (called
>>>> auto-librime).
>>>>
>>>> ~Niels
>>>
>>> Osamu just helped to upload it (to unstable), so it's now in the new
>>> queue. [1]
>>
>> Please next time upload to experimental when you're asked to do so. In
> this case
>> it's fine, I verified that there are no conflicts with other transitions,
> so
>> there's no need to cancel the upload.
>
> Thank you!
>
>> Why did you rename the -dev package from librime-dev to librime1-dev?
> Having an
>> unversioned -dev package (e.g. librime-dev) is generally preferred. A
> versioned
>> one makes sense when there are two versions of the library
> simultaneously, but
>> that is not the case here.
>
> The renaming is due to a backward-incompatible API change in
> librime 1.0, where some struct members changed types. So I
> followed the recommendation here.[1]
>
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/TransitionBestPractices
That advice is wrong. Renaming the -dev package makes sense if you're going to
keep the two versions of the library for a while, e.g. libgtk2.0-dev and
libgtk-3-dev, which usually means you renamed the source package (gtk+2.0 and
gtk+3.0 in my example). In your case, you want to keep the same librime-dev
package name. Can you change it back?
I will review and edit that wiki page, thanks for the link.
Regards,
Emilio
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