Re: Looking for help on transition workflow with package libevent
On 2022-11-07 07:26:40 +0100, Graham Inggs wrote:
> Hi Nicholas
>
> On Sun, 6 Nov 2022 at 23:51, Nicolas Mora <nicolas@babelouest.org> wrote:
> > I have a bug tagged serious in the package libevent I maintain [1], I've
> > been told the solution is to start a transition workflow.
> >
> > As mentioned in the transition doc [2], I uploaded the fixed package in
> > experimental, but I'm wondering what does "Check the auto-generated
> > "auto-<source>"" mean.
> > Will my package appear on this list automatically or after I request a
> > transition slot from the release team?
>
> It should appear on the list automatically, but it won't because the
> libevent-2.1-7 package name did not change. I suggest that you follow
> what Ubuntu did [3] and bump the SONAME and package name for this
> transition.
Is that really worth the effort for this one missing symbol? I'd just
make sure that is stays around regardless of glibc version.
Best
Sebastian
>
> > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1023284
> > [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions
>
> Regards
> Graham
>
>
> [3] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libevent/2.1.12-stable-5ubuntu1
>
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Sebastian Ramacher
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