Bug#919643: transition: glusterfs

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

On 18/01/2019 09:33, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> 
> Hello,
> 
> glusterfs 5.2-2 has been accepted in experimental.
> For closing #918503 and #881526, which makes life of other maintainers easier
> and smaller dependencies on standard systems I would like to upload it to sid
> along with the new bugfix release 5.3 and have the changes in buster.
> There is no soname change, but now the libraries are seperated in single
> packages and I also provide libglusterfs-dev again.
> 
> The reverse dependencies just have to switch their build dependency from
> glusterfs-common to libglusterfs-dev:

Can't you make glusterfs-common depend on libglusterfs-dev (until the buster
release) so that rdeps don't fail to build if you upload this? Then they can
update their build-dep asynchronously.

Just considering this because there's no real transition per se, particularly if
you address that concern.

Cheers,
Emilio