Bug#1115930: transition: bobcat

[tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: bobcat@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:bobcat
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition



Dear Release Team,

The bobcat source package 6.09.00 introduces an API change that will
require sourceful uploads of a subset of packages that have build
dependencies on libbobcat-dev.  The following packages will FTBFS once
bobcat >= 6.09.00 (currently in experimental) enters unstable:

bisonc++
c++-annotations
multispeech
ssh-cron

Once/if the transition is approved, I will file bugs against all of the
affected build r-deps and mark those packages as affected by the
transition bug.  At that point, I will prepare patches and uploads for
the affected r-deps, and *then* we should be ready for the upload and
transition.  Note that (3) of these will be trivial, as the upstream
author of bobcat is also the upstream author of bisonc++,
c++-annotations, and ssh-cron and has already prepared fixes as new
upstream versions.

Any suggestions are welcome,

Thank you,
tony

Here is the proposed ben file:

title = "bobcat";
is_affected = .depends ~ "libbobcat6";
is_good = .depends ~ "libbobcat6" & >= "6.09.00";
is_bad = .depends ~ "libbobcat6" & << "6.09.00;