Bug#1074232: transition: stk

[Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 confirmed

On 2024-06-24 22:35:27 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: stk@packages.debian.org
> Control: affects -1 + src:stk
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> 
> The latest version of STK fixes #1051564.
> Unfortuatenly STK upstream refuses to commit to semversioning their library,
> and instead attaches the release-version to the libraryname,
> following best practices as laid out in
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Release-numbers.html>.
> 
> In any case, the Debian package has so far followed this scheme (which requires
> a new binary package for every non-minor release), and the plan is
> to continue to do so (upstream is not very active these days).
> 
> The new library name requires a transition for the reverse dependencies.
> 
> I've done a test-build of the rdeps using 'ratt', and have not encountered any
> problems (the project's API is pretty stable)
> 
> Thanks for scheduling a transition.

Please go ahead

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher