Bug#992028: transition: libidn

[Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 confirmed

Hi Simon

On 2021-08-09 13:22:49, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I want to transition libidn to a newer upstream version, and they
> API/ABI bumped.  This is my first transition in many years, so I'm
> looking for guidance here.
> 
> I have uploaded 1.38-1 to experimental, and it builds everywhere.  The
> binary package libidn11 is replaced with libidn12; libidn11-dev renamed
> to libidn-dev (adding a dummy package with the old name); and
> libidn11-java is removed (not setup for java usage properly and <10
> popcon).
> 
> Speaking as upstream of the package, I expect everything to build with
> the new version, doing the API/ABI bump was a mistake but it is several
> years old by now.
> 
> Reverse dependencies have been built here:
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libidn/-/pipelines/273580
> 
> Some comments:
> 
> - clamav: libclamav-dev depends on libidn11-dev needessly:
>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=991976
> - echoping: ftbfs otherwise too, not related to this
> - clickhouse: ftbfs due to 2h build timeout on salsa, otherwise should
>   be okay.
> 
> Is there anything more I should do now?  Let me know when I can upload
> to unstable.

Please go ahead

Cheers

> 
> Ben file (based on auto-generated output on the webpage -- not sure this
> is correct -- why doesn't it output something in the right format?):
> 
> title = "libidn";
> is_affected = .depends ~ "/\b(libidn\-dev|libidn12|libidn11|libidn11\-java)\b/";
> is_good = .depends ~ "/\b(libidn\-dev|libidn12)\b/";
> is_bad = .depends ~ "/\b(libidn11|libidn11\-java)\b/";
> 
> /Simon



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Sebastian Ramacher