Bug#1052252: transition: grantlee5

[Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 confirmed
Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/grantlee5-3.html

On 2023-09-19 16:52:46 +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> X-Debbugs-Cc: grantlee5@packages.debian.org, pkg-kde-talk@alioth-lists.debian.net
> Control: affects -1 + src:grantlee5
> 
> Hi,
> 
> grantlee (packaged in Debian in src:grantlee5) is a library (two
> libraries, in practice) that has a stable API/ABI. The new release
> 5.3.x, currently in experimental, is generally usable by users
> built with the old version.
> 
> The only gotcha is that plugins for it are installed and loaded from
> paths with the major and minor version in it, i.e.
>   ../plugins/grantlee/<MAJOR>.<MINOR>/
> This means that, after the upgrade to a new minor series, the plugins
> installed after building with the old version are not used anymore;
> usually software using grantlee and shipping plugins for it follows
> the grantlee version, so a simple rebuild is enough to fix the issue.

Please go ahead.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher