Hi, Gilles Filippini a écrit , Le 01/08/2014 02:38: > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit , Le 31/07/2014 00:34: >> To be honest, the big number of packages that need sourceful uploads concerns >> me, this close to the freeze. Other RT members have expressed me their concern >> as well. >> >> Can't you find a way to make the rdeps work with both the current and the new >> packages? See e.g. the perl 5.20 transition, where the paths are changing and >> the rdeps need fixing, but those fixes are being done *beforehand* and they work >> with the old and new perl. Then when the transition starts, we'll only need binNMUs. >> >> So if you care so much about this, one possibility would be to forget about the >> new upstream release to avoid the SONAME bump, and to get the rdeps fixed >> beforehand. After most have been fixed, you change the paths as needed and NMU >> the rdeps that didn't get fixed. If I have understood things correctly, no >> packages will need binNMUs, so there won't be a transition needed for this. You >> just need to file the bugs and at some point do the switch and NMU what's left. >> >> If you file the bugs now at severity important, ping the unfixed bugs in a >> month, then in 1.5 or 2 months you change the paths and NMU the rest of the >> fixes, you can get this done by mid-October. >> >> Hope what I said makes some sense; it is late and I am tired. >> >> But if you ask me about your current proposal, I'd honestly say it is too late >> for jessie. > > Thanks for sharing your views. I'd like to take my chance anyway since > AIUI you're not giving a definitive NO-GO. > > To ease the transition I've updated (and tested) my patches so that they > support both releases of hdf5. This way, once all the fixes are done, > only binNMUs should remain to do. > > I've now filed bugs against all the packages requesting a fix. See the > updated status below. All these packages are now fixed and uploaded to unstable, so that the transition should require binNMUs only. I hope this new status will void your previous concerns :) Thanks in advance, _g. = Package ready = cmor flann gnuplot-iostream gpiv gpivtools magics++ octave-bim octave-msh pktools pygpiv python-shogun syrthes vtk = Useless build depends on hdf5 (package ready anyway) = getdp #755973 insighttoolkit4 #756015 oasis3 #755681 slepc #755180 = binNMU required = adios armadillo aster cdo code-saturne dolfin (not in testing) dynare (after octave) exodusii feel++ (not in testing) gdal gmsh grads h5py h5utils hdf-eos5 jhdf libcgns libgpiv libmatio libpdl-io-hdf5-perl (not in testing) libvigraimpex mathgl med-fichier meep meep-lam4 meep-mpich2 meep-mpi-default meep-openmpi minc mlpack mpb ncl netcdf nexus nifti2dicom (after vtk6) nip2 (after vips) octave ovito paraview petsc pytables r-cran-hdf5 ruby-hdfeos5 salome-kernel scilab shogun silo-llnl stimfit tessa (not in testing) vips (after libmatio) vtk6 xdmf xmds2 yorick-hdf5 = Others - Not in testing anyway = gnudatalanguage FTBFS blocked by plplot openmeeg FTBFS on sid - #730904 plplot FTBFS on sid - #713309 and more
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