Control: tags -1 confirmed On 03/10/16 00:10, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Control: forwarded -1 > https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/readline7.html > > Hi, > > On 18/09/16 20:43, Matthias Klose wrote: >> Package: release.debian.org >> Severity: normal >> User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org >> Usertags: transition >> >> readline 7.0 is now released, changing the soversion. The idea is to upload >> the >> readline package from experimental (plus providing the libreadline*6-dev >> packages), and stop building the -dev packages and common packages from >> readline6. Afaics, the API didn't change; for rebuild tests I only see build >> failures for unrelated reasons. readline and readline6 can stay in testing >> for >> some time, but readline6 should be removed from testing before the stretch >> release. >> >> I haven't done a test rebuild on unstable, but building on Ubuntu yakkety. >> The >> current state of the transition can be seen at >> http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/transitions/html/readline.html > > Sounds good. I'd prefer to see a test rebuild on sid, but I think we could go > ahead with this as it's a separate source and shouldn't block anything.
readline 6 got decrufted. Rebuilds scheduled. Cheers, Emilio
