Bug#998192: release.debian.org: Transition for gsl-2.7 / libgsl26
On 8 November 2021 at 22:14, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
| Control: tags -1 moreinfo
| Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-gsl.html
|
| On 2021-10-31 14:29:40 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >
| > Package: release.debian.org
| > Severity: normal
| > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
| > Usertags: transition
| >
| > GNU GSL 2.7 was release a few months ago, and we now realised (in the
| > discussion of #993324 which also included upstream) that the upstream libtool
| > instruction were in error by _not_ leading to a new sonumber. This was
| > corrected in (source package) gsl upload 2.7-3 to experimental, which built
| > well.
|
| What's the status of the fix upstream? Was there any progress? Otherwise
| we're gonna repeat that with the next upstream release.
Those are two distinct issues. Upstream, I think we all agreed in the thread
also recorded in the BTS, made an omission in this release where a new soname
was needed, but wasn't given. This happens. So now we need a new soname
__because the ABI/API changed__.
That has happened before, and that is why we had transitions in the past.
But not all previous releases had soname changes. I have maintained GSL here
for about 20 years and I think this is about the third transition. I would
call that defensible.
The release team does of course have a broader view, and I am always keen to
hear your thoughts.
Cheers, Dirk
| Cheers
|
| >
| > I would like to ask for a formal transition. As we saw with failing tests in
| > dependent packages, binNMUs will not work for all package (but possibly
| > "most").
| >
| > Tentative ben file below.
| >
| > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| > title = "gsl 2.7 transition";
| > is_affected = .depends ~ /libgsl-dev/;
| > is_good = .depends ~ "libgsl26";
| > is_bad = .depends ~ "libgsl25";
| > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| >
| > Let me know if I can help otherwise.
| >
| > Cheers, Dirk
| >
| >
| > --
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| >
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| Sebastian Ramacher
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