Re: Accepted net-snmp 5.8+dfsg-1 (source all amd64) into unstable, unstable

Hi Paul (and others),

I think I see the problem, the wiki has two places for transition.

https://wiki.debian.org/TransitionBestPractices which speaks to the developer and doesn't mention at all things like going into experimental and

https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions which initially looks more like what the transition team need to do but has important instructions for developers.

So it seems Debian's documentation strikes again.

My understanding of experimental was it was used for, well, experimental stuff. However, the release teams page uses this as a standard workflow.

Regarding the source only uploads, this is the message you get if you try that.

Source-only uploads to NEW are not allowed.

binary:libsnmp35 is NEW.
binary:libsnmp35-dbg is NEW.

My understanding now is this running through experimental hack will "fix" this issue. You upload, I guess the full binary/source into experimental, wait, and then it's fine for sid once its updates.

It looks like its going to be stuck in sid anyway, there is a perl-related problem that is somehow related to what the Debian packaging is doing to the module (it works ok as a plain upstream thing).

- Craig

On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 at 07:27, Craig Small <csmall@debian.org> wrote:

Hi,
Source only uploads get automatically rejected so someone needs to fix that then. I originally did upload source only for net-snmp but got the reject message.

I never have run a soname change through experimental for any of my packages before, is this a new thing?

On Mon, 14 Oct. 2019, 6:49 am Paul Gevers, <elbrus@debian.org> wrote:
Dear Craig,

Next time, can you please start your transition in experimental?
Everybody is supposed to coordinate transitions with us such that they
don't interfere with ongoing transitions. I think we're lucky [1], but
there were others waiting for a transition slot, so this isn't nice to them.

You'll also have to upload a source-only upload because we're not
allowing binary packages that aren't build on a buildd to propagate to
testing anymore, so please do that ASAP.

Paul

[1] https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-net-snmp.html

> Changes:
> net-snmp (5.8+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium

[...]

> * Library soname updated to 35