Bug#1028528: transition: libcotp

[Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 trixie

On 2023-01-19 15:38:06 +0000, Francisco Vilmar Cardoso Ruviaro wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
> 
> On 1/17/23 22:37, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> > Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> > 
> > On 2023-01-12 11:45:45 +0000, Francisco Vilmar Cardoso Ruviaro wrote:
> >> Package: release.debian.org
> >> Severity: normal
> >> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> >> Usertags: transition
> >> 
> >> Dear Release Team,
> >> 
> >> I would like to update libcotp in unstable to the 2.0.0-1.
> >> 
> >> I would like to request a transition slot for libcotp, changing the
> >> library name from libcotp12 to libcotp2. The version 2.0.0
> > 
> > Why is the SONAME going backwards?
> > 
> I believe this was an upstream decision, please check it out:
> 
> "the soversion is now set only from the $major version (e.g. 2),
> and not from $major$minor (e.g. 12) like it used to be."
> https://github.com/paolostivanin/libcotp/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Is upstream aware that the can never release with major versions 11 and
12 (at least)? Please clarify this with upstream.

In any case, let's postpone this transition to trixie.

Cheers

> 
> 
> I checked it this way:
> 
> $ readelf -d libcotp.so.1.2.8 | grep SONAME
>  0x000000000000000e (SONAME)             Library soname: [libcotp.so.12]
> 
> $ readelf -d libcotp.so.2.0.0 | grep SONAME
>  0x000000000000000e (SONAME)             Library soname: [libcotp.so.2]
> 
> 
> > Cheers
> > 
> 
> Thanks!
> -- 
> Francisco Vilmar Cardoso Ruviaro <vilmar@debian.org>
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Sebastian Ramacher