El miércoles, 18 de julio de 2018 10:07:42 -03 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort escribió: [snip] > > Quoting https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=888366#17 > > > > I assure you there there will not be more than one FFmpeg version in the > > archive at once :) > > > > Now if that can be relaxed then we definitely have a solution. > > No, that is still true. For source packages. > > However because of the way testing migration works, we allow a source > package providing new binary packages to keep the old ones in testing if > they still have rdeps (and they are co-installable). E.g. see how libicu57 > is still in testing, or libcurl3. Once all the rdeps have been updated and > migrated to testing, the britney removes the old libs. > > That should be the case here as well. ffmpeg builds and migrates to testing > (together with all the rdeps that are rebuilt against the new version). The > few remaining packages that still link against the old SONAMEs will remain > in testing together with the old libs, and then eventually those packages > will get fixed or removed from testing, and the ffmpeg old libs will be > removed too. > > That means ffmpeg can start the transition now and migrate to testing, with > qt still linking against the old library. Then once ffmpeg has migrated, we > can start the Qt transition and get that rdep fixed, so that we eventually > get rid of the old "cruft" ffmpeg binary packages from testing.
Ah, in this case we are good :) > You may not know of this "smooth transitions" concept because Qt can't use > it. Indeed, that's true. > In Qt land, all packages need to migrate at the same time because you > are not renaming your shared library packages, you just provide foo-abi-*, > which are provided by two different versions of the same package, and you > can't have two versions of the same package installed at the same time, Right, our problem are private API users. This case would be more like Qt 4 and 5 coexisting. > whereas you can have libavcodec57 and libavcodec58 installed > simultaneously. Perfectly clear. Well, that's pretty nice to read then :-) Sorry for the noise! -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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