On 2026-02-22 Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2026-02-21 Magnus Holmgren <[email protected]> wrote: [...] >> I'm looking into that. I'm just wondering if the API changes are disruptive >> enough, given the number of reverse dependencies, that we should make >> nettle4 >> a separate source package.
> Hard to tell yet. There are a number of trivial changes (e.g removal of > compat header nettle/sha.h) that throw many rdeps but also harder breakage. > How about uploading from a separate source right now to be safe and moving > it to a nettle src if possible later? > I have started an experiment on debusine > https://debusine.debian.net/debian/developers-ametzler-nettle-v1/ > Will need to figure out how to get debusine to try to rebuild all rdeps. I have simply used a no-change upload to debusine. I let it try rebuilding all packages with b-d on nettle and without b-d on gnutls. It is not very encouraging, almost all packages FTBFS. Therfore I think we will need separate source packages for a transition period. cu Andreas -- "You people are noisy," Nia said. I made the gesture of agreement.
