Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-notcurses.html On 2020-11-18 01:46:40 -0500, Nick Black wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org > Usertags: transition > X-Debbugs-Cc: dankamongmen@gmail.com, pkern@debian.org > > I am the upstream author and Debian Maintainer of notcurses. The 2.0.0 release > included an soname bump to 2, though there were actually no ABI changes in this > release. Rather, the soname bump was to indicate that Notcurses was finally > shipping a stable API, as it had changed pretty wildly during 1.x development. > Notcurses will commit to backwards compatibility through the 2.x cycle. > > As I am only a DM (as opposed to a full DD), I couldn't upload to experimental > myself. Due to some communication breakdowns, Debian had an out-of-date > notcurses for more time than I was comfortable with; eventually (shortly after > the 2.0.4 release), I added a patch to fix the soname at 1, and successfully > uploaded notcurses-2.0.4+dfsg.1-1 to unstable. > > Philipp Kern was then kind enough to step in and sponsor the libnotcurses2 > upload, which is now in experimental as 2.0.4+dfsg.1-3. Any reverse dep running > successfully with libnotcurses1 2.0.4+dfsg.1-1 ought work exactly the same when > rebuilt against libnotcurses2 2.0.4+dfsg.1-3 (without changes). > > There are only two reverse-deps: > > * growlight 1.2.19, which I maintain > * snd 20.8-2, maintained by the Debian Multimedia Team. I've contacted them to > let them know about the upcoming transition. I expect no problems with the > package. Looks like snd already FTBFS due to the API changes in notcurses 2.x (#975082). Cheers > > A transition tracker entry has been automatically created at > https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-notcurses.html. > > Ben file: > > title = "notcurses"; > is_affected = .depends ~ "libnotcurses1" | .depends ~ "libnotcurses++1" | > .depends ~ "libnotcurses2" | .depends ~ "libnotcurses++2"; > is_good = .depends ~ "libnotcurses2" | .depends ~ "libnotcurses++2"; > is_bad = .depends ~ "libnotcurses1" | .depends ~ "libnotcurses++1"; > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: bullseye/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (300, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 5.9.8nlb (SMP w/64 CPU threads) > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > -- Sebastian Ramacher
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