Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition
Dear RT: this is a request to transition qwt from experimental to unstable. As the auto tracker noted this release has an API/ABI breakage without upstream doing a proper SONAME bump and so Qt4's libqwt6 is transitioning to libqwt6ab1. It also adds Qt5's libqwt-qt5-6. So rdeps can either use the Qt4 version or migrate to Qt5. Current rdeps and their statuses wrt this transition: - libterralib: it's not marked in the auto tracker because they are mixing Qt4 and Qt5 and it's probably not using libqwt at all. I already filed a bug for them. - nlkt: source already builds against libqwt-qt5-dev... in unstable This basically means: binNMU all archs except amd64, as the auto tracker shows. - qgis: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=784514#27 So maintainers are ready for the transition. It will also help with removing qt4's webkit rdeps. - qsapecng: It works as well with qwt 6.1.2 as with qwt 6.0.0 so the package seems able to be binNMUed. It segfaults on exit (see bug #816898) but this doesn't seems to be related to qwt (or at least the transition shouldn't neither improve nor worsen the current situation). - zygrib: version in experimental needs to be pushed to unstable according to #798875. Ben file: the auto-tracker is about right, so let's keep it like that. Kinds regards, Lisandro. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers buildd-unstable APT policy: (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
