Bug#817035: transition: qwt
On 07/03/2016 12:43, 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.
I'm preparing a -6 upload which will depend on libqwt-qt5-dev for the
transition.
I'm also working on a fuller fix, adding the terraView functionality
(which uses qwt)
but that can wait until after qwt 5 enters testing.
regards
Alastair
> Kinds regards, Lisandro.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
> APT prefers buildd-unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
--
Alastair McKinstry, <alastair@sceal.ie>, <mckinstry@debian.org>, https://diaspora.sceal.ie/u/amckinstry
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