2018-03-24 11:01 GMT+01:00 Sven Joachim <[email protected]>: > Control: severity -1 important > > On 2018-03-10 22:55 +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > >> 2018-03-10 19:37 GMT+01:00 Sven Joachim <[email protected]>: >>> On 2018-02-25 00:55 +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: >>> >>>> 2018-02-24 8:54 GMT+01:00 Sven Joachim <[email protected]>: >>>>> >>>>> So here is a possible plan: >>>>> >>>>> - Do *not* fix this bug in unstable now, to exclude the possibility of >>>>> the above symbol lookup error after a cwidget rebuild when the ncurses >>>>> transition starts. >>>>> >>>>> - After ncurses has been accepted in experimental, upload cwidget there >>>>> too. Rename the library package again, say to libcwidget3v6, and >>>>> build-depend on libncurses-dev (>= 6.0+20180210) to ensure that it gets >>>>> linked against libncursesw6 rather than libncursesw5. >>>>> >>>>> - When the ncurses transition starts in unstable, both aptitude and >>>>> cwidget still FTBFS. Upload the new cwidget package to unstable, get >>>>> aptitude binNMU'ed, and everyone is happy. >>>>> >>>>> Does this sound reasonable? >>>> >>>> Yes, with the following comments/caveats (mostly reminders for myself, >>>> or somebody else if ends up doing this): >>>> >>>> - the "v5" suffix was for the GCC5 transition (changes due to C++11 >>>> ABI), the name should be "libcwidget4" or something. I wanted to >>>> change a couple of minor things and bump the soversion anyway, just >>>> never find the time to sort out all of the details, so let's see :) >>> >>> Do you think you can finish these changes this month? So far I have >>> only found one other showstopper[1] for the ncurses transition, and I >>> intend to file a bug against release.debian.org in 2-3 weeks if nothing >>> else crops up. >> >> Yes, very busy right now but should be more free in the last week, if >> that's all right :) >> >> Feel free to ping me again, raise the severity of the bug or anything, >> so I notice and remember. > > I intend to file a transition bug for ncurses tomorrow. If you can > finish the changes for libcwidget4 until Easter, that's probably > sufficiently early, but I have also come up with a backup plan: declare > a versioned Breaks against aptitude and bump shlibs in libcwidget3v5. > This requires uploads for both cwidget and aptitude, but does not need > to through NEW. > > See these branches for cwidget and aptitude: > https://salsa.debian.org/joachim-guest/cwidget/commits/ncurses6 > https://salsa.debian.org/joachim-guest/aptitude/commits/ncurses6
That's good. Sorry for not being more responsive, but I am massively snowed under. I was leaving this precisely for Easter, because I have like 5 days of holidays in total :) Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
