Bug#879738: transition: gnustep-base
On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:05:41 +0200 Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org> wrote:
> clone 879738 -1
> reassign -1 gnustep-gui-runtime/0.25.0-4
> retitle -1 gnustep-gui-runtime: Depends on gnustep-back0.25
> severity -1 serious
> thanks
>
> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > On 30/10/17 17:19, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> > > 1.25.0-2 is built and installed on all arches; please schedule the
> > > binNMUs at your earliest convenience. Thanks.
> >
> > Done.
>
> Thanks, but it looks like the transition is held by a bug in
> gnustep-gui: gnustep-gui-runtime depends on gnustep-back0.25 while it
> shouldn't. libgnustep-gui-dev is pulling in -runtime and because
> -back is not binNMUed yet, it still depends on libgnustep-base1.24 so
> the Build-Depends of all packages build-depending on
> libgnustep-gui-dev cannot be satisfied.
> Classic "Catch 22" scenario.
>
> The bug was introduced in gnustep-gui/0.25.0-1 during the migration to
> modern debhelper but was not really visible before the removal of the
> .symbols files in 0.25.0-4 (the shlibs were unused until then).
>
> We'll need a sourceful upload of gnustep-gui fixing this issue in
> order to proceed with the transition.
>
> @Eric:
> In fact this is fixed in master, but how do we proceed with the
> repository now that there are lots of changes in master intended for
> experimental? We have to prepare an upload fixing only this bug.
I think we can ignore the git repo for this upload (and import manually
the changes and the changelog entry in the next upload).
Except if you see a better option
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