Bug#1013178: transition: ceres-solver

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 confirmed

On 18/06/2022 15:29, Francois Mazen wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> X-Debbugs-Cc: francois@mzf.fr
>
> Dear release team,
>
> I and Pierre Gruet (pgt@d.o) would like to transition ceres-solver to the new
> SOVERSION (3).
>
> The upstream changed the SOVERSION of the package without changing the major
> version number (2.1.0). That's why we missed this ABI change, and Pierre
> reverted the upload by uploading a new package with the +really suffix
> (2.1.0+really2.0.0).
> Upstream does not follow semantic versioning and confirmed that this behavior
> is intentional [1].
> So, a transition process is needed for the Debian package to handle this
> SOVERSION update.

This transition clashes with the ongoing onetbb through openturns, however those 
two have already migrated to testing so that shouldn't be a blocker.

> All reverse dependencies are building fine at least on amd64 [2].

That link doesn't tell me if the rdeps build against the new SONAME. Have you 
tested that? If so, go ahead.

Cheers,
Emilio