Control: tags -1 confirmed On 07/03/16 13:43, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > 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.
Go ahead. Cheers, Emilio
