Bug#1031587: [request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#1031587: Handling of the request-tracker4 -> request-tracker5 transition in bookworm

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 12:12:15AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>, Debian Request Tracker Group <pkg-request-tracker-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Control: block 1030749 by -1
> 
> https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html#soft
> 
> ...
> Dropping or adding binary packages to a source package, moving binaries between source packages or renaming source or binary packages is no longer allowed. Packages with these changes will not be allowed to migrate to testing. These changes are also no longer appropriate in unstable.
> ...
> 
> 
> The problem is that opening of #1030749 is de facto
> a request-tracker4 -> request-tracker5 transition that
> happened 4 weeks after the deadline for transitions.
> 
> 
> There are two options for resolving this:
> 1. Treat #1030749 as a forbidden transition and ship both versions
>    of request-tracker in bookworm, or
> 2. grant reverse dependencies an exception from the soft freeze
>    rules for the request-tracker4 -> request-tracker5 transition.

Hi, 

Thanks very much for flagging this. I must admit I had lost sight of
the fact that this still required so much work and that it would count
as a transition. We had originally planned this for a long while ago
but never quite completed it.

If the release team would be willing to grant an exception to the policy
to get this done, we can get this wrapped up inside a week I expect.

Please let us know.

Best
Dominic

> For option 2 I looked at the 9 reverse dependencies of request-tracker4
> in the autoremoval list:
> 
> RT extension installer that has to stop depending on
> both versions:
> - libmodule-install-rtx-perl
> 
> No package remame required, has to upgrade to the upstream version
> that supports request-tracker5:
> - librt-extension-commandbymail-perl
> 
> Ships packages for both versions and has to drop the
> request-tracker4 package:
> - rt-extension-assets-import-csv
> 
> request-tracker4 -> request-tracker5 transition prepared
> in experimental:
> - rt-extension-customfieldsonupdate
> - rt-extension-calendar
> - rt-extension-jsgantt
> - rt-extension-nagios
> - rt-extension-smsnotify
> 
> Update to latest upstream version and package rename required:
> - rt-extension-repeatticket