Control: severity -1 important Hi,
Thanks Andrius for the advice given here. On Wed, 8 Nov 2023 09:44:58 +0200 Andrius Merkys <mer...@debian.org> wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, 02 Nov 2023 18:10:19 +0100 Pierre Gruet <p...@debian.org> wrote:> > Recently catch2/3.4.0-1 was uploaded to Debian, great. Yet the binary packages > > do not follow the layout for libraries that is described in Policy Section 8. > > For instance I think we should provide a shared library and if there are enough > > reasons not to do so (see Policy 8.3), at least the binary package name should
> > be changed to libcatch2-dev. > >> > Also this is not a header-only library anymore, the description of the package
> > should be changed. > > I agree, binary package could be renamed and descriptions should be > adapted as well. I am not sure about shared library, though. > > First, upstream uses full source package version for soversion. This > means a transition for even a patch level upstream release. I maintain a > couple of packages like this and it is tiring. > > Second, I do not expect any real binary package depending on catch2 > shared library as only test objects are linked with it. But I may be > wrong here.This seems like a good reason to keep a static library, at least for the moment.
If there remains only the renaming of the package and its description to be changed, then downgrading the severity looks sensible.
>> > As a side note, the upload of the major version 3.x came out with many breaking > > interface changes giving rise to RC bugs in e.g. genomicsdb, netgen, spdlog, > > therion just to name a few, also to failing autopkgtests in many rdeps. I would > > have been more comfortable with such a huge version change being advertised and > > more prepared, with some kind of a library transition process for instance.
> > Right. Such changes should be announced beforehand since catch2 is used > widely in the archive. Transition would have been nice indeed.If you, Mathieu, have some insight into the best ways to transition reverse dependencies, I think giving it in the related bug reports would be very helpful.
> > > In any case, thanks for your work on catch2, > > Seconded - thanks for maintaining this package. > > Best wishes, > Andrius > > Have a great day, -- Pierre
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