Bug#908931: transition: gnat-8, Ada component of gcc-8
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition
Hello.
Ada packages Build-Depend: gnat, a virtual package Depending on the
default compiler.
In unstable, gnat/7.1 Depends: gnat-7.
In experimental, gnat/8.0.0 Depends: gnat-8.
In addition, Ada libraries directly Build-Depend: "gnat-VERSION",
which also provides what could be expected in libgnat-8-dev if such a
package existed.
In this language, each change in the source of a library or its
recursive dependencies requires a renaming of the -dev package.
All reverse dependencies must then update their Build-Depends.
The update to gnat-8 requires a renaming of all -dev packages,
in addition to the traditional change of Shared Object Version.
In order to reduce the number of such slow transitions, many unrelated
changes (like new upstream releases) have been introduced with a
single new name for the -dev package.
Now, everything seems ready.
Ben file:
title = "gnat-8";
is_affected = .build-depends ~ "gnat";
is_good = .depends ~ "libgnat-8";
is_bad = .depends ~ /libgnat-[1-7]/;
These packages are ready in experimental.
A bin-NMU to unstable should be sufficient.
They Build-Depend on each other via versioned packages (gnat-8,
libfooVERSION-dev...) so the upload order should not matter.
adabrowse
adacgi
adacontrol
adasockets
ahven
anet
asis
dbusada
dh-ada-library
gnat
gnat-gps
gprbuild
libalog
libaunit
libaws
libflorist
libgmpada
libgnatcoll
libgnatcoll-bindings
libgnatcoll-db
libgtkada
liblog4ada
libncursesada
libtemplates-parser
libtexttools
libxmlada
libxmlezout
opentoken
pcscada
These packages are ready in unstable, but are not libraries.
They Build-Depend: gnat without version restriction.
They only need a dep-wait against gnat (>= 8).
music123
ada-reference-manual
This package is ready in experimental, but is not a library.
It Build-Depend: gnat without version restriction.
I suppose that it should be reuploaded to unstable,
either after gnat/8.0.0
or with a dep-wait for gnat (>= 8) enforcing the build order.
topal
No one volunteers to update these packages.
They Build-Depend: gnat-7 and would block the other ones.
Please remove them from testing.
polyorb
spark
What should we do now?
Thanks.
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