Bug#879440: transition: gpsd
Control: tags -1 confirmed
On 26/10/17 12:32, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On 10/26/2017 10:52 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> How do you know that there won't be build failures? Did you review the upstream
>> changes, particularly the ABI breaks, and verified that none of the rdeps use
>> any of the removed symbols, removed struct fields...?
>
> yes, I'm doing that since libgps12 or so and never had a transition that
> was not smooth.
> gpsd upstream (including myself, who is doing a lot of testing before a
> release actually happens) is sane and as long as people use documented
> stuff from libgps.h they are safe as long as there is not api breakage
> announced.
>
>> Can you do a quick rdep
>> rebuild? There are tools to help with that, e.g. ratt.
>
> done that just for you, but excluding the KDE stuff which builds for way
> too long - yes, all thing just build fine.
Please go ahead.
Emilio
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