As Anton and Mathieu said, it is probably not at all the same amount of work. The best solution from a maintainer point of view would be to package 5.10 first. 5 family is the one by all the dependencies.
If you are in a hurry to see 6.0 in Debian, you should step in to help. Sylvestre Le 12/09/2013 10:06, ST a écrit : > If the order doesn't matter, is it possible to package the most recent > 6.0 version first? > > Thank you, > ST > > On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 07:30 +0200, Anton Gladky wrote: >> Hi Mathieu, >> >> thanks for the note. You are right, we should probably have it as a separate >> source package. >> >> Anton >> >> 2013/9/12 Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]>: >>> Anton, >>> >>> Here is my two cents, given the large number of API/ABI changes, I >>> doubt most rdepends will actually compile. >>> Again *IMHO*, I would have upload vtk5.x one last time, and provide >>> vtk6 as a separate source package (see what happen with tiff4/5 for >>> example), to allow for a smooth transition. As stated before, I will >>> not get involved in this process, so feel free to handle it the way >>> you think is right. >>> >>> 2cts >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Anton Gladky <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I have started to package v6.0, but I am not sure, when it will be >>>> packaged. >>>> From my point of view, there is no big reasons to upload 5.10. >>>> >>>> Anton >>>> >>>> 2013/9/11 Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]>: >>>>> [top post sorry] >>>>> >>>>> As i explained, I was talking about vtk 5.10.1, I have no clue how >>>>> hard it is to package vtk 6.0.0 > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
