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Bug#755539: transition: hdf5



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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