On 14/05/2026 15:38, Micha Lenk wrote:
> Hi Alec,
> 
> Alec Leamas <[email protected]> hat am 11.05.2026 23:15 CEST geschrieben:
>>
>> 
>> Dear List,
>>
>> I have problems with the opencpn package.
>>
>> Upstream released the 5.14 version about two months ago. As usual, I pushed 
>> a new version to sid. When everything works, as it usually does, the sid 
>> version is migrated to testing and I can make the backports which almost all 
>> Debian users use.
>>
>> However, opencpn in sid has become FTBFS due to problems in the glew package 
>> [1]. This problem looks complicated and not likely to be resolved shortly.
>>
>> I also have a libcxx-serial dependency to update [2]. This is something I 
>> control and will do.
>>
>> opencpn is a leaf package without reverse deps which builds just fine 
>> against testing. Given this, would it be possible to get an exception to 
>> make trixie and bookworm backports from sid rather than testing?
>>
>> Or, is there some other way Debian users don't have to wait for (probably) 
>> months for 5.14?
>>
>> I might need to make a new upload, likely after fixing libcxx-serial. But 
>> without an exception this is not a priority.
>>
>> Thoughts?
> 

> For now I'd prefer if we could instead invest the resource to fix the 
> situation in sid, i.e. help to fix the RC bug in glew so that it can cleanly 
> transition to testing before we do a backport. At least #1136422 on glew 
> seems to be actively worked on...

I have no way to help with the glew bug which is above my paygrade. 

This basically boils down to that our users will have to wait for the 
backports. From a user perspective I see no good reasons for this with 
perfectly working backports in git. Actually, resolving the glew situation will 
not affect the backports in any way -- after all, they are built against glew 
in trixie and bookworm.

That said, I hear you.

"waiting for #1136422"

--alec

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