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Bug#884695: transition: dpdk



Control: tags -1 confirmed

On 18/12/17 13:16, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> 
> Dear release team,
> 
> We would like to move the new DPDK LTS release 17.11-2 from
> experimental to unstable. This breaks the various libraries ABI compat,
> so a transition is needed.
> 
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dpdk
> 
> Reverse build dependency source package:
> 
> collectd
> 
> The reverse dependency builds fine with the new version of DPDK without
> any source changes. Note that it currently FTBS due to a different and
> unrelated build-dep [1]. Tested by disabling that other plugin and
> rebuilding with the new DPDK version.
> 
> The new DPDK packages are all in experimental, having passed the NEW
> queue, and have built on all supported architectures.
> 
> Note that from this release we started to follow a boost-like model, so
> the ABI revision is named after the upstream major version (eg: librte-
> eal3 -> librte-eal17.11). This is done because most libraries built
> from DPDK break ABI compat on every single major release.

There are no rdeps so no transition tracker... Since you confirm the only
build-rdep is fine, please go ahead.

Emilio


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