On 10/01/2014 09:14 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Bas, > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 08:30:39AM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >> On 09/07/2014 07:16 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >>> The libgdal1h C++ symbols files now use an alternative dependency >>> template to depend on the upstream version specific virtual package >>> provided by libgdal1h. This change was suggested by the Release Team to >>> better track dependencies on the unstable C++ ABI. See: >>> >>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=756867#40 >> >> The alternative dependency is not as helpful as I had hoped. Since we've >> not received feedback from the release team, and the transition hasn't >> been confirmed, I'm pretty sure it's not going to happen in time for >> jessie anymore. > > If the release team just has not answered (for whatever reason) I'd > rather ping again (is there an according thread on > [email protected]?). As far as I understood no *new* transition > should be done but I'd consider this as an *ongoing* transition.
The transition bug is also a thread on debian-release, see my last post for example: https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2014/09/msg00158.html Because the transition bug is not tagged confirmed, I don't think the Release Team considers it an ongoing transition. If we'd use the alternative dependency on the C symbols too, it would allow us to check if a package was rebuild with a newer version of GDAL. But also requires a rebuild of every reverse dependency for every gdal minor update (e.g. 1.11.0 to 1.11.1). This may not be such a big issue, since most packages use some C++ symbols anyway, so binNMUs of those packages are required anyway. The few packages that only use the C symbols will be rebuild unnecessarily, but that may not be a problem. > Please let me know if I somehow can help here. Thanks for the offer, I'll let you know when there is. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/E88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
