On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:40:45 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: [email protected] > Usertags: transition > > Hi, > > libgphoto2 is currently open for adoption and lag behind some versions > (new versions that seems to fix some issues for some users, including > me). > > Martin Pitt has aggreed to do a NMU/QA upload in debian with the latest > version, as he did in Ubuntu (see: #711831). > > This will require a transition, unfortunately it will require sourceful > uploads as the soname is in the name of the -dev package. > There's no reason to change the -dev package name, please keep libgphoto2-2-dev. From IRC discussion pochu seems to prefer to make it a transitional package; I don't think that's necessary, but I don't mind either way.
> To quote Martin from the RFA bug: > > " > It does change both ABI and API quite a bit, and thus needs a > transition. I did that in Ubuntu, most rdepends work just fine, but > gphotofs and gphoto2 need new upstream versions which work against > 2.5. > " > Does that mean the rest of the rdeps (in debian) can deal with the new API with no source changes? Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
