Re: uncoordinated abseil transition ( was: Re: Accepted abseil 0~20220623.0-1 (source amd64) into unstable, unstable)

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

Am 29.08.22 um 03:47 schrieb Benjamin Barenblat:
> Thank you so much for doing all the work to figure out what packages I
> need to binNMU! I’ll get the ppc64el tests fixed and take care of the
> binNMUs ASAP.
You probably can't, the release team can do that, though.
> Please let me know if you (or anybody else on the release team) would
> like me to coordinate Abseil transitions in the future.

*You* have to do it.

https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions.


You haven't followed anything of this.

> I suspect at
> some point Abseil dependencies are going to be common enough that
> transitions will need to be fully coordinated, but having never
> maintained a library this popular before, I’m not sure what that point
> is.

I'd say you reached this point already.


Regards,


Rene