Bug#891872: transition: curl
On 23/04/18 20:38, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 01/03/18 22:31, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
>> Package: release.debian.org
>> Severity: normal
>> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
>> Usertags: transition
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to request a transition for curl in order to unblock the migration
>> to OpenSSL 1.1 (#871056). This is necessary due to the fact that the curl ABI
>> exposes a structure inherited from libssl itself, which was changed in the 1.1
>> update (see #844018 for more information).
>
> I was looking at this in order to ack it. However I've noticed that libcurl4
> conflicts against libcurl3. Why is that? That's going to make the transition
> hard, can it be removed?
>
> Hmm, I just realised libcurl3 ships libcurl.so.4, so that explains the conflict.
> I just found the rationale for this in
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/curl/merge_requests/2. That means this will have
> to wait until there are no conflicting ongoing transitions. I will ack this when
> that time comes.
Please go ahead now.
Since all packages need to migrate at the same time, some NMUs may be needed to
fix potential FTBFS in rdeps. I will notify this bug when the binNMUs are done
and we have a list of failing packages.
Cheers,
Emilio
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