On 21/10/17 17:55, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: transition > > hi release team, > > the libgps libray has some symbol changes and needs a soname bump. > buuild failures are not expected.
How do you know that there won't be build failures? Did you review the upstream changes, particularly the ABI breaks, and verified that none of the rdeps use any of the removed symbols, removed struct fields...? Can you do a quick rdep rebuild? There are tools to help with that, e.g. ratt. Cheers, Emilio