Andreas Metzler wrote: > > Hello, > > since there might be a freeze this year I would like like to upload > gnutls 2.8.1 to sid soonish. The soname is unchanged just shlibs > have been bumped. > > The major pain is this one: In the new stable release libgnutls-config > and the m4 helper code for invoking it from ./configure have been > dropped. Imho this is a good thing since it can lessen unneeded library > linkage. Since gnutls has supported pkg-config for a long time the > needed changes to ./configure.ac usually are one-liners. > > I test-built the build-depending packages in May and submitted bug > reports on failing ones: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[email protected] > About 40% of the packages have already been fixed, most of the > rest either have a patch or are forward upstream with suggested patch > there. > > Uploading gnutls 2.8.1 to sid will make the yet unfixed bug reports > rc, adding 21 rc bugs to lenny. I can continue to track this and if > necessary fix them by NMU. > > In the improbable case that this ends up blocking the release there is > the ugly, but rather easy way of temporary re-adding libgnutls-config > as Debian specific patch. So please give me a go. ;-)
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