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Re: libvpx transition



On 15/05/15 16:52, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 15/05/15 16:30, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
>> Hi Emilio,
>>
>> I indeed forgot that, sorry!
>>
>> On Fr, 2015-05-15 at 16:21 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>>> Hi Sebastian,
>>>
>>> There's an uncoordinated transition for libvpx in unstable. I suppose you didn't
>>> remember the soname had changed when re-uploading to unstable now that  the
>>> freeze is over. It affects a few of packages and I do wonder whether the rdeps
>>> will build just fine or not. I saw this[1] and shows that a few symbols were
>>> removed, but I don't know if that affects our rdeps.
>>
>> All recent rdeps should build fine against the new version of the
>> library. The removed symbols shouldn't be used by anything (at least I'm
>> not aware of any user), the bigger problem is that some compatibility
>> #defines disappeared from the headers.
>>
>> But I expect everything recent to build just fine. The only thing that
>> probably doesn't is gst-plugins-bad0.10, but that one should really just
>> die and disappear from the archive.
>>
>>> Can you check if the rdeps are fine, so we can schedule binNMUs if appropriate?
>>
>> Please schedule binNMUs for everything except gst-plugins-bad0.10, that
>> will have to be patched a little. If any of the binNMUs fails for
>> whatever reason, patching the packages should be a matter of sed (I'll
>> check then).
> 
> Great, I have scheduled the binNMUs. Let's see how things go.

So:

libgd2 and icedove fail to build because of libvpx. I've filed bugs for both.
iceweasel failed to build for seemingly unrelated reasons (and with old libvpx).
gst-plugins-bad0.10 needs an upload.

Cheers,
Emilio


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