Bug#787024: transition: libaqbanking
Control: tags -1 confirmed
On 29/05/15 16:56, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 29/05/15 11:09, Micha Lenk wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am 28.05.2015 00:35, schrieb Emilio Pozuelo Monfort:
>>> On 27/05/15 23:11, Micha Lenk wrote:
>>>> [...] As AqBanking's API seems to have stabilized
>>>> recently, do you recommend to transition the -dev package to the new name
>>>> libaqbanking-dev instead? If so, is there anything to keep in mind if the old
>>>> package libaqbanking34-dev already has a Provides: libaqbanking-dev (it has it
>>>> actually long since)? The reverse dependencies currently all build-depend on
>>>> libaqbanking34-dev.
>>>
>>> Please rename it to libaqbanking-dev. [...]
>>
>> I renamed it and uploaded it to experimental as libaqbanking 5.6.0beta-2. It is
>> currently in NEW.
>>
>>>> The following reverse dependencies will be impacted by this transition:
>>>>
>>>> abtransfers
>>>> gnucash
>>>> kmymoney
>>>
>>> BTW do the rdeps build against the new version? Or do they need code changes?
>>
>> I didn't try, but as I am following upstream closely I don't expect that any
>> code changes are needed. The SONAME bump was done as a precaution measure
>> because some symbols were temporarily added to the library that got removed in
>> libaqbanking 5.5.1-1 (only in experimental).
>
> If no other symbols or structs were changed and those that got removed are not
> in the version in sid, then I guess it's alright.
>
> Let us know once the package has been through NEW.
That's happened. You can go ahead with an upload to unstable, followed by
severity:serious bugs against the rdeps to update their build-dependency on
libaqbanking-dev. Please make those bugs block this one.
Cheers,
Emilio
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