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Re: Bug#751767: libBLT changes SONAME without changing package name



On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:46:14 -0600, Sergei Golovan wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov  2, 2014 at 13:58:10 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello release team,
> >> Since this is going to be a transition, and a new upstream SONAME for
> >> jessie seems unlikely, should this bug be jessie-ignore'd
> >> and fixed for jessie+1 instead?
> >>
> > If the SONAME changed between wheezy and jessie then this ought to be
> > fixed for jessie, IMO.
> 
> I've prepared the fixed packages. Since i've retained the 'blt'
> package (it became
> a dummy one), the transition isn't strictly necessary. If a package
> which build-depends
> on blt-dev rebuilds, it gets a new dependency on libblt2.5-8.6. Otherwise,
> it just keeps depending on blt which is fine as blt won't go anywhere.
> 
You can't keep a dummy package on SONAME changes, since it doesn't
actually provide the ABI older versions of its rdeps expect.

Cheers,
Julien

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