Re: RFM: transition of flint
Hi,
Le 04/09/2015 14:29, Tobias Hansen a écrit :
Hi Julien,
On 09/04/2015 02:08 PM, Julien Puydt wrote:
Hi,
I need some mentoring for my first library transition. I have a hard
time getting exactly what the page on transitions explains
(https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions).
The source package is flint, and produced libflint-2.4.5 ; now it
produces libflint-2.5.2 -- both can coexist.
There is a single reverse dependency, which is singular -- and I checked
singular is only a recompilation away from using the newer version of
flint.
Tobias (Hansen) pushed the new version in experimental and it cleared
off NEW, so the ball is rolling.
The second step is "Ensure it builds on all architectures in testing,
where it built previously." -- it doesn't say exactly how I'm supposed
to check that.
In the PTA on the right hand side there is a link "buildd: exp":
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=flint&suite=experimental
Ok, so the transition tracker is not where I should check... good!
It failed to build on i386 (and also other 32 bit architectures on
ports) so I guess that should be resolved first.
The failures look like tests (plural : not always the same) take too
long and hence the compilation gets terminated by force. I think I have
an i386 box somewhere -- I'll try to put pbuilder to work on it, and
I'll see if that's indeed just a timing issue.
The third step is about getting a transition tracker. I have it
(https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-flint.html) ! But the
page says that if it's not useful I should generate an applicable one. I
have no clue how one generates an "applicable one" even though the one I
have looks quite useless:
- it says there are bad depends -- libflint-2.4.5 isn't bad, as it can
coexist with libflint-2.5.2 ;
- it doesn't list singular as needed anything, even though it should ;
- it says it can't smooth update because libflint-2.4.5 being neither in
libs nor oldlibs -- what does that even mean ?
It looks pretty fine to me.
- libflint-2.4.5 is "bad" because it will be replaced by this
transition. We want to have it gone from unstable. Otherwise you would
have renamed the source package.
Ok.
- singular is in the list, no problem.
In the dep level 2, yes, but not at the start of the page, where it
lists what is affected.
- I'm not sure what smooth-update means (maybe a function of some tool),
but you should set "Section: libs" in debian/control for the lib
package. Since you just forgot to do that, the information that
smooth-update is not possible might be wrong.
Oh. I'll add "Section: libs" to d/control then! And check all my other
packages... Should I prepare a 2.5.2-2 for that, to push into experimental?
Thanks,
Snark
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