Bug#894159: transition: icu
On 13/05/18 22:52, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
> Last but not least I've a different understanding (again) of package
> transitions with Adrian Bunk. He reassigned #898465 [2] to ICU, when both
> related bugreports of ncmpcpp [3] and viking due to mapnik [4] are due to
> partial upgrades (shown in the package versions 0.8.1-1 and 3.0.20+ds-1
> respectively that these are _not_ the binNMUed ones). Checking the build
> logs show mapnik and ncmpcpp rebuilt normally and I've even tested those
> correctly. The bug reporters need to do a full packages upgrade, that's all.
> Then the migration script knows about dependencies and will not let icu
> enter testing by itself, only with the transitioned dependencies.
icu should migrate to testing even before all the rdeps migrate. That could
cause mapnik or ncmpcpp, for example, to stay at older versions, with boost1.62
and icu at the new ones, breaking those packages. Besides, we support partial
upgrades.
The solution I see here is to add Breaks in boost1.62 against mapnik and ncmpcpp
(and other affected packages, if any). That should solve this bug for now, and
while not ideal, we should have a boost transition eventually so I don't mind
using Breaks in this situation.
Cheers,
Emilio
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