Control: tags -1 confirmed On 05/01/2019 11:29, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: transition > > Release Team, > > This has been pending for a long time, and while the pieces have been > mostly there, I've dropped the ball and did not proceed with the > transition earlier. Apologies for this and for the last minute > submission! > > So, I'd like to ask for permission to upload jemalloc 5.1.0-2 to sid: > > - stretch/buster have 3.6.0-11, a pretty old upstream version, and also > presenting some long-standing issues like #843926 (hard-coded page > sizes at build time). > > - 5.1.0-1 has been in experimental since May 2018, and has successfully > been built on all official architectures (and all debian-ports except > hurd-i386 and riscv64). I have not made an upload to unstable, but can > do so as soon as you give me the green light. > > - This newer version uses a slightly different ABI and thus has a new > SONAME and binary package, libjemalloc2 (vs. libjemalloc1), so this > requires a transition. API is (mostly) the same -- the exception being > what was an experimental API that has been now dropped and replaced by > a stable one. > > - Adam Borowski (Cc'ed), who was interested in this and pinged me about > it recently, ran a rebuild of all rdepds and encountered and reported > only one FTBFS among packages in testing, #914814 affecting spades, > which was using the aforementioned experimental API and -as of a few > minutes ago- has a patch attached. > > - Ubuntu apparently imported 5.1.0-1 to their distribution back in May, > and shipped their Cosmic stable release with it ([1] says "Copied from > debian experimental in Primary Archive for Debian GNU/Linux by Steve > Langasek"), apparently with no ill effects(?) > > Let me know if there are any questions and thanks for your work and > consideration!
Please go ahead. Emilio
