If the situations is so simple, then we don't need to bother Release Team with a transition, since it's easy enough for us to coordinate.
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 23:53, Dmitry Smirnov <only...@member.fsf.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Here is dependency analysis for wv: > > The only package with "Depends: wv" is > gwrite > I am the maintainer of gwrite, confirmed working with new wv. > The only package with "Recommends: wv" is > hyperestraier > Not tried by me. > (I'm ignoring all the packages with "Suggests: wv") > wv 1.2.4 and 1.2.9 are providing very same set of executables. > > > Only two packages Depends on libwv-1.2-3: > libabiword-2.9 > python-abiword > > Only two source packages with libwv-dev in Build-Depends are: > abiword > pyabiword > > Here is the interesting part: > pyabiword have libwv-dev in Build-Depends only as workaround against missing > build-deps in libabiword-2.(8|9)-dev (which had empty Depends for years until > it was reported by pyabiword maintainer Jonas Smedegaard and fixed by yours > truly). > Good to know. > Because python-abiword suffers from overlinking, it inherit dependency on > libwv-1.2-3 from libabiword, but needlessly links against libwv. > > pyabiword builds perfectly with new libwv-1.2-4 (which is actually used only > by libabiword). > If pyabiword builded with --as-needed resulting binary package python-abiword > do not depend on libwv at all. > The ideal way is to ask pyabiword to build with --as-needed to avoid unneeded dependencies. Dmitry, can you coordinate this with Jonas? If sponsorship is needed then I can help. > pyabiword maintainer is quite active, his latest pyabiword release dated > January 17. > > Daniel, since I'm maintaining abiword which is the only known application > using libwv (not to mention the same upstream) would you like me to become > your co-maintainer for src:wv? (Sadly I can't promise to dedicate much > attention to it, but anyway...) What do you think? > > Regards, > Dmitry. Once pyabiword updated to use --as-needed, we can upload new wv to unstable, followed by a rebuild of abiword. -- Regards, Aron Xu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
