On Monday, 20 February 2023 16:24:37 CET Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2023, at 18:08, Wookey wrote: > > On 2023-02-04 21:42 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 09:42:58PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> > >> Does doing an ABI transition of ~113 libraries seem tractable to folks? > > > > It certainly provides evidence for the idea that this is not > > completely intractable, which I think many people (including me) > > worried was the case initially. > > When I did a similar analysis a few years ago using just pattern-matching > on header files, the result was that more than half the total packages > in Debian depended on at least one other package that needed an ABI > transition, which in my mind made it unrealistic.
If you do it in the early stage of Trixie's dev cycle, would it still be unrealistic? It may be a bumpy ride and take a while, but I don't see an immediate issue with that. Sid may finally become Unstable again ;-P But *when* you do it, is quite relevant. If you/we are only a few months away from the Trixie Freeze, then it's probably not a good idea. But if we're 1-1.5 years before that, there's plenty of time to fix things. Or is that too simplistic on my part?
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