Re: Looking for advice about json-simple 3 transition

2020-05-17 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 13/05/2020 à 15:46, Gilles Filippini a écrit : > I'd like to push json-simple 3.1.1 into unstable, but I'm not sure how I > should handle the transition. The 3.x releases are not backward > compatible with 2.x. > > A whole set of deprecated classes has been removed: >> * Deprecated JSONParse

Re: Looking for advice about json-simple 3 transition

2020-05-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Thu, 14 May 2020, Gilles Filippini wrote: > I think I could try this indeed. Would a versioned 'Breaks' field > listing the few reverse dependencies be useful then? Yes, it’s pretty much required to ensure that upgrades from the previous release work. bye, //mirabilos -- tarent solutions

Re: Looking for advice about json-simple 3 transition

2020-05-14 Thread Gilles Filippini
mer...@debian.org a écrit le 14/05/2020 à 11:18 : > On 2020-05-14 11:27, Gilles Filippini wrote: >> I think I could try this indeed. Would a versioned 'Breaks' field >> listing the few reverse dependencies be useful then? > > No, this is not needed, libsimple-json-java upload for v3.0.0 shouldn't

Re: Looking for advice about json-simple 3 transition

2020-05-14 Thread merkys
On 2020-05-14 11:27, Gilles Filippini wrote: > I think I could try this indeed. Would a versioned 'Breaks' field > listing the few reverse dependencies be useful then? No, this is not needed, libsimple-json-java upload for v3.0.0 shouldn't be any different from the other uploads. However, please

Re: Looking for advice about json-simple 3 transition

2020-05-14 Thread Gilles Filippini
mer...@debian.org a écrit le 14/05/2020 à 09:56 : > Hello, > > On 2020-05-14 10:07, Gilles Filippini wrote: >> I won't maintain 2 source packages. The deprecated one (version 2.x) >> should be dropped. The 'Conflicts' field is needed during the transition >> only. The new package would have: >> *

Re: Looking for advice about json-simple 3 transition

2020-05-14 Thread merkys
Hello, On 2020-05-14 10:07, Gilles Filippini wrote: > I won't maintain 2 source packages. The deprecated one (version 2.x) > should be dropped. The 'Conflicts' field is needed during the transition > only. The new package would have: > * 'json-simple' as source package name (unchanged) > *

Re: Looking for advice about json-simple 3 transition

2020-05-14 Thread Gilles Filippini
mer...@debian.org a écrit le 14/05/2020 à 07:20 : > Hello, > > On 2020-05-13 16:46, Gilles Filippini wrote: >> I'd like to push json-simple 3.1.1 into unstable, but I'm not sure how I >> should handle the transition. The 3.x releases are not backward >> compatible with 2.x. >> >> A whole set of

Re: Looking for advice about json-simple 3 transition

2020-05-13 Thread merkys
Hello, On 2020-05-13 16:46, Gilles Filippini wrote: > I'd like to push json-simple 3.1.1 into unstable, but I'm not sure how I > should handle the transition. The 3.x releases are not backward > compatible with 2.x. > > A whole set of deprecated classes has been removed: >> * Deprecated JSONParse