Bug#837630: transition: xapian-core
Control: tags -1 confirmed
On 13/09/16 06:50, Olly Betts wrote:
> 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
Go ahead!
Emilio
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