Source: gumbo-parser Version: 0.13.0+dfsg-2 Severity: serious X-Debbugs-CC: debian-rele...@lists.debian.org
In an attempt to fix https://bugs.debian.org/1092247 a patch [1] was added to bump the soname from 2 to 3. However, this patch is unique to Debian and is not applied upstream. I don't think this is how Debian handles sonames. It is possible for instance to rename the library binary package without actually bumping the soname. This still causes a library transition so everything is rebuilt against the new binary package. This was done on a very large scale with last year's 64-bit transition. See all the packages with t64 suffixes. I do see that you are in communication with upstream at https://codeberg.org/gumbo-parser/gumbo-parser/issues/3 so one way forward is to urge upstream to take your patch which you have marked as "Forwarded: not-needed". I think ideally they would then do a new release which you would package for Debian. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/gumbo-parser/-/commit/74e1b9890 Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
