Bug#894049: transition: ncurses
On 10/05/18 15:56, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2018-03-25 21:51 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> Package: release.debian.org
>> Severity: normal
>> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
>> Usertags: transition
>>
>> I would like to start a transition for ncurses, changing the soname of
>> the libraries from 5 to 6.
>
> The results thus far look quite good, although a few bugs still need to
> ironed out, e.g. #898131.
>
>> Suggested ben file (please check if it is correct):
>>
>> title = "ncurses";
>> is_affected = .depends ~
>> /\b(lib32ncurses6|lib32ncursesw6|lib32tinfo6|lib64ncurses6|lib64ncursesw6|lib64tinfo6|libncurses6|libncursesw6|libtinfo6|libtinfo6\-udeb|lib32ncurses5|lib32ncursesw5|lib32tinfo5|lib64ncurses5|lib64tinfo5|libncurses5|libncursesw5|libtinfo5|libtinfo5\-udeb)\b/;
>> is_good = .depends ~
>> /\b(lib32ncurses6|lib32ncursesw6|lib32tinfo6|lib64ncurses6|lib64ncursesw6|lib64tinfo6|libncurses6|libncursesw6|libtinfo6|libtinfo6\-udeb)\b/;
>> is_bad = .depends ~
>> /\b(lib32ncurses5|lib32ncursesw5|lib32tinfo5|lib64ncurses5|lib64tinfo5|libncurses5|libncursesw5|libtinfo5|libtinfo5\-udeb)\b/
>> & ! .package ~ /\b(libncursesw5|libncurses5)\b/;
>
> This has turned out to be rather suboptimal, because the regexes match
> on libncurses5-dev etc, and so some packages are listed as partial or
> bad in the tracker[1] which should be good or unaffected. The ones
> below seem to be better, filtering out the -dev packages while still
> catching hardcoded dependencies such as #804579.
>
> title = "libncurses6";
> is_affected = .depends ~ /\b(lib32ncurses6|lib32ncursesw6|lib32tinfo6|lib64ncurses6|lib64ncursesw6|lib64tinfo6|libncurses6|libncursesw6|libtinfo6|libtinfo6\-udeb|lib32ncurses5|lib32ncursesw5|lib32tinfo5|lib64ncurses5|lib64tinfo5|libncurses5|libncursesw5|libtinfo5|libtinfo5\-udeb)([^-]|$)/;
> is_good = .depends ~ /\b(lib32ncurses6|lib32ncursesw6|lib32tinfo6|lib64ncurses6|lib64ncursesw6|lib64tinfo6|libncurses6|libncursesw6|libtinfo6|libtinfo6\-udeb)\b/;
> is_bad = .depends ~ /\b(lib32ncurses5|lib32ncursesw5|lib32tinfo5|lib64ncurses5|lib64tinfo5|libncurses5|libncursesw5|libtinfo5|libtinfo5\-udeb)\b/ & ! .package ~ /\b(libncursesw5|libncurses5)([^-]|$)/;
What do you want to achieve with this?
& ! .package ~ /\b(libncursesw5|libncurses5)([^-]|$)/;
I don't think that's doing what you want.
Cheers,
Emilio
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