Hi Jose, On 03/02/12 00:50, Jose Luis Tallón wrote: > My apologies if you did send an e-mail and I didn't read it. My inbox is > severely overloaded as of lately... > > Isn't it good style to notify the maintainer and/or coordinate with them > before an NMU ?
Apologies. I posted on the -devel thread that I had prepared a package and uploaded to mentors back in December [1] because you said you gave up trying to upload the package [2]. > On 31/01/12 00:08, Jonathan McCrohan wrote: >>>>>> Julien Cristau<jcris...@debian.org> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Please don't change the -dev package name. > > Yup! > >>>>>> All of the packages except one have versioned Build-depends >>>>>> on libconfig8-dev. Surely this needs to be replaced with >>>>>> libconfig-dev or at least libconfig9-dev? >>>>>> >>>>> No it doesn't? You can rename the -dev package to >>>>> libconfig-dev if you want, but certainly don't *need* to, and >>>>> if you do it, then it would be way better from our point of >>>>> view to keep building libconfig8-dev as a transitional package >>>>> until the reverse deps are updated, and to do that separately >>>>> from the SONAME bump. > Yes, please. > Being bitten a couple times already after not checking buildability of > r-deps... it is the library maintainer's responsibility, after all. >>>> If its ok, I'll leave the package as is. >>>> >>> Sigh. >> I can change it if it makes it easier for you so. Your paragraph above >> made it sound as if it didn't matter which way it was done. >> >>>> To clarify, what is the process for this transition? Will the >>>> package be uploaded to experimental to allow me to report bug >>>> reports and patches against dependant packages? >>>> >>> I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. >> This is my first upload which requires a transition, and I am unsure >> of what happens next. > > Please read the library maintainer's guide first (or re-read if needed). > It does avoid many a headache... > >> It seems common for packages to be uploaded to >> experimental for a time prior to the actual transistion to allow other >> maintainers update their packages accordingly. I was wondering will >> this be the case with this transition? > Well, unfortunately for the world (some would say ;) ), not too many > packages depend on libconfig; Nor are they very complex. > Therefore, a full transition via experimental and involving the RM is > not needed, AFAIK. Just notifying the depending maintainers should > suffice (it would be different during freeze, of course) I have already spoken to Julien and I will upload a new package with the -dev packages fixed to experimental. > Just drop me a line if I can be of any help. Will do. Thanks, Jon 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/12/msg00007.html 2: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/11/msg00416.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2f25ac.4050...@gmail.com
