Am 19.08.2015 um 11:44 schrieb Simon McVittie: > On 19/08/15 09:53, Markus Koschany wrote: >> I wonder why we cannot just rebuild the library and request binNMU's for >> the small number of reverse-dependencies > > Take it up with the release team if you want to do this, but I suspect > the reasons why not will go something like this: > > * binNMUs can't happen until the rdeps' other C++ dependencies have had > their ABI transitions, so there is no guarantee that binNMUs will > occur promptly (or succeed) > > * The release team are dealing with something like 100-200 parallel > transitions here, so are unlikely to want to spend time discussing > whether a particular library gets to be an exception On the contrary my intention was to save ourselves a great deal of time but most of all I want to understand the technical reasoning for another package name change and why we just can't wait until the rdeps' of other C++ dependencies complete their ABI transitions and then schedule the binNMUs. Since you are a member of the Debian Games team, please feel free to rename the binary packages at anytime. I can't upload them myself. Regards, Markus
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