Bug#1020799: Transition: pkg-config to pkgconf: next steps

["Andrej Shadura" <andrew@shadura.me>]

Hi all,

I’ve been rebuilding packages with pkgconf for the past couple of weeks, and it looks very good so far:

http://pkgconf-migration.debian.net/

I have identified and resolved some issues, and most of the build failures I’ve seen were not related to pkgconf itself, but were caused by external factors and were usually present when packages were built as usual (missing build dependencies, compiler errors etc).

The version of pkgconf package providing the pkg-config binary package has been sitting in experimental for some time. I think I have tested the upgrade process quite extensively, but it would still be great if someone else could have a look. In any case, my plan is to upload it to unstable in about two weeks time. I will then commence another round of rebuilds; meanwhile I will be working on fixing issues I’ve already run into:

https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=andrewsh%40debian.org&tag=pkgconf-rebuild-ftbfs

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Cheers,
  Andrej