Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/octave-6.4.html Control: tags -1 confirmed
On 2022-01-12 13:46:03 +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: transition > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-oct...@lists.debian.org > > Dear Release Team, > > Please schedule a transition for octave 6.4, which is currently in > experimental. All Octave add-ons need to be recompiled, because of a change in > the interface exposed to them. > > Note that, due to an upstream change, Octave add-ons no longer explicitly link > against Octave libraries (i.e. those libraries are no longer in the ELF > DT_NEEDED section, which is not an issue since they are dynamic loadable > modules). As a consequence, we have decided to drop the (shared library) > liboctaveN package. The shared libraries are now installed in private > locations, per policy, and following upstream practice. We now exclusively > rely > on pseudo-package octave-abi-NN for tracking ABI requirements. > > The transition should be straightforward. Our expectation is that only one > package (nlopt) will need a sourceful upload, and we will take care of it. > > Here is the Ben file (note that it’s different from the autogenerated one): > > title = "octave6.4"; > is_affected = .depends ~ /liboctave8|octave-abi-55|octave-abi-56/; > is_good = .depends ~ /octave-abi-56/; > is_bad = .depends ~ /liboctave8|octave-abi-55/; Please go ahead Cheers > > Thanks, > > -- > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://sebastien.villemot.name > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ https://www.debian.org -- Sebastian Ramacher
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