Hi nicoo On 2021-02-16 15:59:19, nicoo wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 02:49:27PM +0100, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > > The upload of 0.12.0-2 just started a transition. Note that we are in > > soft freeze and hence transitions are no longer acceptable for bullseye. > > Apologies for this: I had discussed this on #debian-devel on 2020-02-04 > with (amongst others) elbrus, at which time I pinged the maintainers of > wlroots on IRC, but waited 10 days before the upload and missed that > the soft freeze window had started.
These 10 days makes the difference between transition freeze and soft freeze. We're now defintely past the point where we want to do transitions which require actions from the release team (I guess nobodoy would have noticed this transition if it wouldn't require a binNMU of phoc). Sorry > The delay & forgetting was mostly due to some mess elsewhere in Debian > eating up all my energy; I can tell you privately if it's relevant, but > it might suffice to say that antiharassment@ and DAM were involved. >_>' I'm very sorry to hear that. > For reference, the ABI breakage & soname change is due to wlroots making > some part of its API private, and removing obsolete & unstable functionality > (functions wlr_xdg_*_v6_*), which account for the largest part of the diff. > I attached the debdiff, and upstream's changelog is there: > https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/releases/tag/0.12.0 While it's valuable to keep the ABI clean, I think that this change can wait for bookworm. Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher
