Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition
I'd like to transition the archive to Xapian 1.4 before the next
release.
There are packages of xapian-core 1.4.0 in experimental. I maintain
xapian-bindings and xapian-omega, and packages of 1.4.0 for those are
also in experimental. All three packages have built on all release
architectures:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=xapian-bindings+xapian-core+xapian-omega&suite=experimental
I've test rebuilt the other reverse dependencies and they all built
cleanly with the exception of:
* pinot - this FTBFS in unstable due to GCC 6 (RC bug #812165) and
(as I've noted in that bug) when I patch that and rebuild against
xapian-core 1.4.0 the resulting binary segfaults when run, due to
something which appears to be related to symbol mangling. Since
Xapian is GPLv2+ and pinot also links to openssl the package
doesn't appear to be distributable anyway (RC bug #833692), and
pinot has already been removed from testing, so this doesn't seem
like a blocker for the transition.
* libsearch-xapian-perl - this needs a patch for compatibility with
xapian-core 1.4. I have just completed such a patch, which I'm
going to apply upstream, so depending when the transition is
schedule we can either apply the patch or package a newer upstream
version if one has been released by then. I'm an uploader for this
package, so can easily do either.
The auto-generated tracker looks good to me:
https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-xapian-core.html
Cheers,
Olly
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