Re: Pseudotransition

2016-11-28 Thread Sean Whitton
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 04:21:14PM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > the package is new, it has never been part of any Debian stable release, > and popcon reports a number ~10. > > The answer is the same answer for this question: > do you really think somebody using testing in the last month c

Re: Pseudotransition

2016-11-28 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >I haven't received an answer to the following query. I'd appreciate if >someone could help me decide whether I need to patch in upstream's >missing SONAME bump or not. the package is new, it has never been part of any Debian stable release, and popcon reports a number ~10. The answer is

Re: Pseudotransition

2016-11-28 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello all, I haven't received an answer to the following query. I'd appreciate if someone could help me decide whether I need to patch in upstream's missing SONAME bump or not. On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 05:21:49PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > I have now confirmed that libghc-zxcvbn-c-dev, the only

Re: Pseudotransition

2016-11-19 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Gianfranco, On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:15:51PM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > as usual, I don't have any authoritative hat, but people consider a > "transition" > something that involves more than 5-10 packages, in this case > > your one seems to be an internal transition, and not w

Re: Pseudotransition

2016-11-18 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >Spoke slightly too soon -- I'm not sure yet whether libghc-zxcvbn-dev >even needs a binNMU. So it might be that there is an ABI break, but it >affects no packages in Debian -- would that still be violating the >freeze? > >(To be specific: the ZxcvbnInfo struct, which is passed to the librar

Re: Pseudotransition

2016-11-18 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, s/libghc-zxcvbn-dev/libghc-zxcvbn-c-dev/ in my previous message. On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 02:24:40PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > libghc-zxcvbn-dev does not require any code changes to work with the > new version of libzxcvbn: just a rebuild. Spoke slightly too soon -- I'm not sure yet whe

Pseudotransition

2016-11-18 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, There is a new release of my package libzxcvbn which has an ABI break, though upstream failed to bump the SONAME in the Makefile. However, the only package in unstable that links against libzxcvbn is libghc-zxcvbn-dev, which is also my package (there is also keysafe, but that's in experime