Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: ex...@packages.debian.org Control: affects -1 + src:exiv2 User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition
Hi, I'd like to request a transition for the current stable version of the Exiv2 library, i.e. 0.28.x (currently 0.28.3). There were changes in "core" parts of the API, which required changes in a large number of the users. At this point, basically almost all the users have been fixed either upstream or downstream, so I think it is finally time to introduce the new version, more than one year after the release of 0.28.0. In addition to the SONAME bump, the update to 0.28.x also splits the translation files form the libexiv2-X package to a new libexiv2-data: this means that libexiv2-27 (0.27.x) and libexiv2-28 (0.28.x) are not coinstallable. There are almost 40 users of Exiv2 in unstable, and at the time of this writing almost all of them build fine with 0.28.x; the exceptions are: - hdrmerge -- FTBFS reported as #1071027 - lomiri-gallery-app -- FTBFS reported as #1076761 - nomacs -- request to upload a new version filed as #1076763 Regarding hdrmerge & lomiri-gallery-app: I created delayed NMUs for them that will hit in about 14 days. Regardless, they are leaf packages, so they should not block this transition. Regarding nomacs: it is not currently in unstable, so it will not block the migration to testing. Also worth noting gpscorrelate: it builds fine with 0.28.x, however it is out of testing because of autopkgtest failures (see #1076775); this means it can be still rebuilt with the new version. Hence, I believe this transition should be good to go now, and I do not see other open RC bugs for the affected packages that would block this. I tested the rebuilds only on amd64, so in case issues on other architectures show up, I will take a look during the transition. Ben file: https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-exiv2.html title = "exiv2"; is_affected = .depends ~ "libexiv2\-27" | .depends ~ "libexiv2\-28|libexiv2\-data"; is_good = .depends ~ "libexiv2\-28|libexiv2\-data"; is_bad = .depends ~ "libexiv2\-27"; Thanks, -- Pino
