On 5 February 2018 at 16:54, Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> wrote: > We want to remove botan1.10 from testing, so yes, this warrants a serious > severity, and it has only three r-depends: > > 1. monotone is dead (last upstream release 2011), we shouldn’t keep zombies > in Debian > > 2. ovito is leaf package and ranked very low in popcon > > 3. qtcreator is a leaf package[a] and ranked high in popcon > > So I think it’s quite appropriate to fill serious bug instantly, as it > doesn’t affect half of the archive, but just two (one) package. > > From quickly skimming the Botan usage in qtcreator, I think it might be quite > easy to use botan 2.x in QtCreator. It’s just only a matter of somebody > packaging it (and afaik our conversation will reset the auto-RM timer)...
ACK then. I think you should really go and file the RoM bug then, I can make qtcreator fall back to it's embedded version for the meantime. I asked qtcreator's upstreams and so far I did not receive a reply on this. we want to avoid a delta with them as much as possible.
