Re: RFS: flint -- C library for number theory

[Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net>]

Hi,

Le 27/08/2014 18:38, Sylvestre Ledru a écrit :
> On 27/08/2014 18:35, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> > On 08/27/2014 06:31 PM, Julien Puydt wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Le 27/08/2014 15:54, Tobias Hansen a écrit :
> > > > Because transitions that break the ABI of a library are coordinated by
> > > > the release team [1,2] to make sure several transitions at the same time
> > > > don't lead to chaos and an archive where certain things can't be built
> > > > anymore. Also to make sure the reverse dependencies are rebuilt and
> > > > everything can migrate to testing in a reasonable timeframe. Since you
> > > > are now maintaining several libraries it's good that you learn about
> > > > that now.
> > > I thought rebuilding reverse deps was done automatically anyway?
> > No, it's not (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
> Confirmed.
> It is called binNMU (and/or a transition if it impacts a lot of packages).

Oh! Then indeed just pushing new packages which don't FTBFS won't be 
enough... but it's a sane first step, isn't it?

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