On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:34:14AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 09:53:01AM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > > I was holding off an upload because of the libGLU c++ transition. Did you > > take that into account?
> The direct dependencies have not changed, so there should be no problems. > AFAICT, xlibmesa-gl, xlibmesa-glu and libglut3 have no external ABI > changes. > xlibmesa-gl is still the old version on arm,m68k,mips,mipsel,sparc, so > may not currently build on those platforms (I'm afraid I didn't spot > that), but they should just be put into dep-wait for a few days. Since > it's now built on 7/9 arches, this doesn't appear to be problematic. > > Also, last I checked, contacting the maintainer was a required step in an > > NMU. When were you planning on letting me know your intentions? > This package was one of a list of packages I was asked to fix by the > RM. 0-day NMUs are also OK for GCC 4.0 FTBFS bugs, apparently. Nothing I say trumps the requirement to inform maintainers about the changes you're making to their packages and to make certain for yourself that the NMU is warranted and correct. Please read this as implicit in any suggestions I make regarding NMU candidates. > I do normally contact people, but due to the above, and the lack of > any response to the original bug report, I did not. If you had put > a note on the bug report to let people know that you were taking > care of it, I would have left it. As it was, it looked like just > another of the ~400 etch RC FTBFS bugs which had not been fixed by > their (MIA) maintainer. In this case, there will be a need to update the build-dependencies of freeglut shortly; there are no ABI transitions taking place for libGLU (though it was reasonable for Jamie to wait, in light of the confusion surrounding this question), but the xlibmesa-glu-dev package *is* going away once the xfree86 source package is phased out in favor of xorg-x11, and packages will need to build-depend on libglu1-xorg-dev instead. The net impact is relatively minor, but IMHO it would have been better to wait for libglu1-xorg-dev to be available on all architectures, and address both issues at once. In that case, it seems you could have simply let Jamie do the upload himself. :) Sorry for not being more clear. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
