Hi Nobuhiro, Am Mittwoch, den 23.12.2015, 05:29 +0900 schrieb Nobuhiro Iwamatsu: > Hi Tobias, Gianfranco and Emilio. > > Thanks for your help! > Sorry, about this transition. > > I don't upload libpng16 with providing libpng-dev now. Because Depend > of libpng > is very large and effect for system is large too. > I was considering to gradually transition in a way that was proposed > by Michael. > I just sent a mail about this. Could you check this mail, and > comment? > > Best regards, > Nobuhiro
For me this plan sounds good. Some steps couls be parallized thouhg, so for example I think we do not need to wait libpng to transistion to testing before filing bugs and making packages ready to compile with (libpng12 and) libpng16. I think we should also recommend people to B-D on libpng-dev to help subsequent transistions, maybe in combination with stop providing libpng-dev when the transistion is completed but having a real package depending on the latest -dev package. (As Michael pointing out, Versioned depends are not working with Provided packages.) (But the release team should give the ok to start) I'm currently rebuilding all reverse B-Ds (on libpng-dev and libpng12- dev), but this will still take a few days to complete (currently done ~150packages out of ~450) to sasess the situation -- A summary will be posted to this bug when ready. -- tobi