Bug#914392: transition: coin3

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 confirmed

On 16/12/2018 23:08, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> El 28/11/18 a les 19:12, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ha escrit:
>> On 22/11/2018 23:33, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
>>> Subject: transition: coin3
>>> Package: release.debian.org
>>> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
>>> Usertags: transition
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>> Dear release team,
>>>
>>> I would like to ask a transition slot for the coin3 library. The package
>>> has been reworked and a new version of the upstream has been packaged.
>>>
>>> Upstream have changed the build system to CMake and this has been used
>>> for the package. This has an implication that it will break with FTBFS
>>> the packages that use it: pivy, freecad, openscenegraph-3.4 and soqt, I
>>> have contacted with all the maintainers and they are aware about it and
>>> we are preparing patches or simple disable in any case.
>>
>> Where are you discussing that? I don't see bug reports for those packages.
>> Please file bugs so that we can track the status and decide when to start this
>> transition based on the disruption that it will cause. Also please make those
>> bugs block this one.
> Dear release team,
> 
> we have two packages in new with versions that built against coin3 in
> experimental:
> 
> https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/soqt_1.6.0~ea5cd76+ds1-1~exp1.html
> https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/pivy_0.6.4-1~exp1.html
> 
> both are the version more problematic and FTBFS without these new
> versions. Please, could you push coin3 to unstable to initiate the
> transition to make all this versions be built?
> 
> freecad needs both. We have built freecad with both and works perfectly.

I don't see a bug for openscenegraph-3.4. Is there one? What's its status?

Anyway go ahead with this. I trust that you will take care of openscenegraph as
you have done with everything else.

Emilio