Control: tags -1 confirmed On 13/09/16 06:50, Olly Betts wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: transition > > I'd like to transition the archive to Xapian 1.4 before the next > release. > > There are packages of xapian-core 1.4.0 in experimental. I maintain > xapian-bindings and xapian-omega, and packages of 1.4.0 for those are > also in experimental. All three packages have built on all release > architectures: > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=xapian-bindings+xapian-core+xapian-omega&suite=experimental > > I've test rebuilt the other reverse dependencies and they all built > cleanly with the exception of: > > * pinot - this FTBFS in unstable due to GCC 6 (RC bug #812165) and > (as I've noted in that bug) when I patch that and rebuild against > xapian-core 1.4.0 the resulting binary segfaults when run, due to > something which appears to be related to symbol mangling. Since > Xapian is GPLv2+ and pinot also links to openssl the package > doesn't appear to be distributable anyway (RC bug #833692), and > pinot has already been removed from testing, so this doesn't seem > like a blocker for the transition. > > * libsearch-xapian-perl - this needs a patch for compatibility with > xapian-core 1.4. I have just completed such a patch, which I'm > going to apply upstream, so depending when the transition is > schedule we can either apply the patch or package a newer upstream > version if one has been released by then. I'm an uploader for this > package, so can easily do either. > > The auto-generated tracker looks good to me: > https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-xapian-core.html
Go ahead! Emilio
