On 28/11/2018 23:32, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: > El 28/11/18 a les 19:12, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ha escrit: >> On 22/11/2018 23:33, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: >>> Subject: transition: coin3 >>> Package: release.debian.org >>> User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org >>> Usertags: transition >>> Severity: normal >>> >>> Dear release team, >>> >>> I would like to ask a transition slot for the coin3 library. The package >>> has been reworked and a new version of the upstream has been packaged. >>> >>> Upstream have changed the build system to CMake and this has been used >>> for the package. This has an implication that it will break with FTBFS >>> the packages that use it: pivy, freecad, openscenegraph-3.4 and soqt, I >>> have contacted with all the maintainers and they are aware about it and >>> we are preparing patches or simple disable in any case. >> >> Where are you discussing that? > > Almost all of them in private mails. I will adopt SoQt. I have been > working with that package and Anton Gladky know all my work. You can > check [1] qt5 branch. > > With Kurt Kremitzki (freecad and pivy) we are in contact about how to > solve the migration. > > And with openscenegraph I have interchanged some mail with one of the > maintainer about that. > > I don't see bug reports for those packages. >> Please file bugs so that we can track the status and decide when to start >> this >> transition based on the disruption that it will cause. Also please make those >> bugs block this one. > > we are waiting to have coin in unstable to push new versions/patches. About: > > - soqt, no problematic. I have done it > - pivy. I was not able to build it with the coin3 cmake version. Waiting > that Kurt work on it. I'm not an Python expert. But it should be reasonable. > - Freecad, depends on pivy. The new version doesn't depends on soqt. > - openscengraph, it only uses coin to import wrl files in a plugin. In > the worse case it can be disabled, but that > > Are you proposing that I fill a bug before the package fails?
Yes. coin3 is already in experimental, but even if it wasn't you could still file the bug. So yes, file them with the latest status updates (patches, plan, etc) and make those bugs block this one. Cheers, Emilio
