CC'ing ubuntu-motu as it heavily affects universe packages. On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 04:30:52PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >> I intend to upload libav 9 to raring rather sooner than later. I'm writing >> you because: >> >> - the package is not in debian/unstable yet, but currently sitting in NEW, >> targeted at experimental (but syncing is not possible anyway) >> - I don't think that there will be a similar fallout like the last big >> libav package, but given that some more internal API got dropped and there >> are a number of packages in the archive that use deprecated APIs, there >> will be some problems. >> - I remember that Collin requested such big updates to be announced before >> on this mailing list. I'm doing it with this email. > > I did? I don't remember that particularly ... > > Anyway, I don't have a problem with this provided that you commit to > organising an effort to identify and fix the problems in > reverse-dependencies. Last time, other people had to do a lot of work > to clean up the mess and it all involved much more disruption than was > necessary.
Well, it it not like I had run away last time. Of course I did join the effort to fix the resulting mess, but obviously, it was a lot of work. Currently, I count over 80 packages that are directly affected by this, most of them in universe. While fixing all packages in main would be no problem for me, I cannot commit to fixing all packages in universe and hereby ask for assistance. > > (Please note that, assuming you're using the same source package name > with a changed set of binary package names, the new -proposed migration > system will enforce that this work is done before allowing the new libav > into raring; so it is in your interest to make sure that it happens.) Does the migration system consider only the packages in main, or does it require to not break universe? -- regards, Reinhard -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu