Bug#1020799: transition: pkg-config
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On 2022-09-26 23:48:12 +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
>
> Hi,
>
> As described in [1], I’d like to go ahead with a replacing the Freedesktop.org
> implementation of pkg-config with pkgconf. This will involve pkgconf
> taking over the binary package pkg-config.
>
> I’m currently running a rebuild of all packages using pkg-config [2] to
> determine if there are issues that need addressing during this
> transition. So far I found one issue [3] that affects a couple of
> packages, I’m going to discuss it with the pkgconf upstream.
Did you find any new issues in the current round of rebuilds?
Cheers
>
> Results of a previous rebuild from the last year are available at [4],
> but they’re not very relevant anymore as some packages are no longer in
> Debian, and some failures were unrelated to pkgconf itself.
>
> The current pkg-config maintainer gave me a go-ahead [5], so I’d like to
> start with the process as soon as possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrej
>
> [1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/07/msg00252.html
> [2]: http://pkgconf-migration.debian.net/
> [3]: https://bugs.debian.org/1016922
> [4]: http://pkgconf-migration.debian.net/old/
> [5]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/09/msg00271.html
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Sebastian Ramacher
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