Bug#817035: transition: qwt
Control: tags -1 confirmed
On 07/03/16 13:43, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
>
> Dear RT: this is a request to transition qwt from experimental to unstable.
>
> As the auto tracker noted this release has an API/ABI breakage without
> upstream doing a proper SONAME bump and so Qt4's libqwt6 is transitioning to
> libqwt6ab1.
>
> It also adds Qt5's libqwt-qt5-6.
>
> So rdeps can either use the Qt4 version or migrate to Qt5.
>
> Current rdeps and their statuses wrt this transition:
>
> - libterralib: it's not marked in the auto tracker because they are mixing
> Qt4 and Qt5 and it's probably not using libqwt at all. I already filed a bug
> for them.
>
> - nlkt: source already builds against libqwt-qt5-dev... in unstable
> This basically means: binNMU all archs except amd64, as the auto tracker
> shows.
>
> - qgis: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=784514#27
> So maintainers are ready for the transition. It will also help with removing
> qt4's webkit rdeps.
>
> - qsapecng: It works as well with qwt 6.1.2 as with qwt 6.0.0 so the package
> seems able to be binNMUed. It segfaults on exit (see bug #816898) but this
> doesn't seems to be related to qwt (or at least the transition shouldn't
> neither improve nor worsen the current situation).
>
> - zygrib: version in experimental needs to be pushed to unstable according to
> #798875.
>
> Ben file: the auto-tracker is about right, so let's keep it like that.
Go ahead.
Cheers,
Emilio
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