Awesome! Thanks for the packaging work that you do. Once we get it voted on you should have a proper release.
-Robert Middleton On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 2:52 PM Tobias Frost <t...@debian.org> wrote: > > Update: > > FTP masters have been very quick and approved the package, so the snapshot is > already in experimental. [1] > > I've also rebuilt all reverse depdencies successfully and asked the release > team > to approve the transition. [2] > > [1] https://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/log4cxx > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1027746 > > Cheers, > -- > tobi > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 10:52:43AM +0100, Tobias Frost wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 05:21:34PM -0500, Robert Middleton wrote: > > > > > The last time we talked about this Tobias Frost said that the > > > soft-freeze for Debian is the 12th of January[1], so after that point > > > an updated library wouldn't make it into Debian. I would like to get > > > this version into Debian if possible(as that is the distribution I > > > use), but that depends on Tobias' availability. > > > > To have a chance to make that happen, I've started the transistion workflow > > [1]. > > TBH, due to the soft freeze is in less than two weeks, changes are high that > > we won't make it, but at least I want to have tried it. > > > > The first step is "Upload your new version to experimental (and have it > > clear > > NEW)", which is what I've just have done: I've uploaded a snapshot (commit > > cbd23ff1) to debian experimental. This needs now to be approved by the > > (Debian) > > ftp masters, which is (usually) for such a change quick, but if they aren't > > or > > not happy for any reason, this can spoil the game. [2] > > > > Only after that, I can ask for a transition slot from the release team. If > > they are > > not happy with a transition that late (IOW that short before the freeze), > > well > > that will be something I have to accept and that will mean 1.0.0 not in > > bookworm. > > > > In parallel I'll see if the reverse dependencies are still building with the > > new version, as for any breakage I will need to have patches available… > > > > So, let's see how it works out. > > > > [1] if you want to know the details: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions > > [2] It needs to go through NEW due to the binary package rename, due to the > > SONAME bump. > > > > -- > > tobi
