owner 654417 ! tags 654417 pending thanks On 2012-01-03 16:55, Matteo F. Vescovi wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: [email protected] > Usertags: transition > > Dear Release Team, >
Hi, Sorry for the late reply. I have setup a tracker page at [1]. > I'm filing this bug for the transition of glew package. > > On August 2011 the new 1.7.0 stable version has been released by > upstream. > > On December 27, 2011 a testing-purpose package has been uploaded to > experimental and with the huge help from Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) it > was tested building with all its 51 reverse dependencies[1]. > > None of the packages in that list were directly affected by the > transition (the only FTBFS is non-glew dependent). > Sounds good so far - do you know if there has been any API changes? > My sponsor for this package, Alessio Treglia (alessio), asked me to use > SONAME-independent -dev packages (libglew-dev and libglewmx-dev), while > the former versions were libglew1.6-dev and libglewmx1.6-dev. > "Provides" field has been anyway set to ease the process. > We have experienced quite a few issues with renaming -dev packages on top of a normal library transition - even with provides (due to versioned build-depends). Though if none of the FTBFS involve build-dependency issues, I guess there no versioned build-dependencies to cause issues. However, just to be clear - if there are any FTBFS issues due to the -dev renaming, I am expecting that the two of you will be NMU'ing affected packages if needed. > List of sources depending on glew following: > [...] > * megaglest Its FTBTS on kfreebsd in sid could stall the transition. * gem (not in your original list) Also FTBFS and in testing, so also a blocker. > > Thanks for your time and patience. > > > [1] http://debomatic64.debian.net/glew/ > > [...] > Other than the two packages above, I think we might be good to go. Feel free to upload the new version of glew to unstable. ~Niels [1] http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/glew.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
