Bug#838234: transition: readline/readline6
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition
readline 7.0 is now released, changing the soversion. The idea is to upload the
readline package from experimental (plus providing the libreadline*6-dev
packages), and stop building the -dev packages and common packages from
readline6. Afaics, the API didn't change; for rebuild tests I only see build
failures for unrelated reasons. readline and readline6 can stay in testing for
some time, but readline6 should be removed from testing before the stretch release.
I haven't done a test rebuild on unstable, but building on Ubuntu yakkety. The
current state of the transition can be seen at
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/transitions/html/readline.html
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