Bug#891872: transition: curl
Control: tags -1 - confirmed
On 23/05/18 13:07, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> 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.
I've acked the R transition, so let's wait for that now.
Emilio
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