Re: Upload of TeX Info 7.0.x to unstable?
Hi Hilmar and Sebastian,
On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 2:24 AM Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> wrote:
> On 2023-01-25 23:17:54 +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> > Am 25.01.2023 um 22:08 teilte Sebastian Ramacher mit:
> > > On 2023-01-24 09:23:26 +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> > > > TeX Info version 7.0 was released last year at beginning of November and
> > > > was uploaded to experimental. We got a few bug reports, which were
> > > > addressed by upstream authors promptly.
> > > > Since then two bugfix releases appeared (currently 7.0.2) and we could
> > > > think about uploading to unstable. According to [1] we are neither in
> > > > the tool chain nor would this be a transition. Nevertheless we know that
> > > > a few(?) packages use makeinfo and texi2* to convert documents, so
> > > > uploading could cause breakage and FTBFS bugs when building docs.
> > >
> > > Did you perform a test rebuild of the reverse build dependencies? That
> > > would make it every easy to answer the question whether its safe or not.
> > >
> > No, I did not. Could you trigger that or let me know how to do it?
>
> There's https://wiki.debian.org/MassRebuilds - best to talk to Lucas.
There is also the "ratt - Rebuild All The Things" tool written by
Michael Stapelberg, originally for the Debian Go Packaging Team, but
works on any other non-Go packages! I am now trying it on libwebp
1.2.4-1 which I uploaded a while ago (which I didn't test with ratt
back then but thankfully didn't break anything), and it is running
great on my local machine!
"apt install ratt", and optionally "apt install dose-extra" too if it
didn't get installed, for better reverse-dependency checking (i.e.
more comprehensive list of packages to test rebuild).
Cheers,
Anthony
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