Bug#918954: transition: yaz

[Vincent Danjean <vdanjean@debian.org>]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition

  Hi,

  yaz in Debian is very old (four-and-a-half-years old, mainly due to
my inaction, sorry).
There has been a bug against it requiering update (#915369) as it was
blocking the removal of icu-config (#898820).
  Hugh McMaster (working on the icu-config removal) helps me to package
the last version of yaz and checked the reverse dependencies. The
updated package is in experimental (5.27.1-1)
  It would be good if the new yaz package can reach buster, mainly due
to the age of the code. In any case, as we were not sure to be on-time
for the freeze, the initial problem (usage of icu-config) has been
fixed by a small patch in unstable (4.2.30-4.1).

  Regards,
    Vincent

Ben file:

title = "yaz";
is_affected = .depends ~ "libyaz4" | .depends ~ "libyaz5";
is_good = .depends ~ "libyaz5";
is_bad = .depends ~ "libyaz4";


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armel, mipsel

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)