Control: severity -1 important On 2018-03-10 22:55 +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> 2018-03-10 19:37 GMT+01:00 Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de>: >> On 2018-02-25 00:55 +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: >> >>> 2018-02-24 8:54 GMT+01:00 Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de>: >>>> >>>> So here is a possible plan: >>>> >>>> - Do *not* fix this bug in unstable now, to exclude the possibility of >>>> the above symbol lookup error after a cwidget rebuild when the ncurses >>>> transition starts. >>>> >>>> - After ncurses has been accepted in experimental, upload cwidget there >>>> too. Rename the library package again, say to libcwidget3v6, and >>>> build-depend on libncurses-dev (>= 6.0+20180210) to ensure that it gets >>>> linked against libncursesw6 rather than libncursesw5. >>>> >>>> - When the ncurses transition starts in unstable, both aptitude and >>>> cwidget still FTBFS. Upload the new cwidget package to unstable, get >>>> aptitude binNMU'ed, and everyone is happy. >>>> >>>> Does this sound reasonable? >>> >>> Yes, with the following comments/caveats (mostly reminders for myself, >>> or somebody else if ends up doing this): >>> >>> - the "v5" suffix was for the GCC5 transition (changes due to C++11 >>> ABI), the name should be "libcwidget4" or something. I wanted to >>> change a couple of minor things and bump the soversion anyway, just >>> never find the time to sort out all of the details, so let's see :) >> >> Do you think you can finish these changes this month? So far I have >> only found one other showstopper[1] for the ncurses transition, and I >> intend to file a bug against release.debian.org in 2-3 weeks if nothing >> else crops up. > > Yes, very busy right now but should be more free in the last week, if > that's all right :) > > Feel free to ping me again, raise the severity of the bug or anything, > so I notice and remember. I intend to file a transition bug for ncurses tomorrow. If you can finish the changes for libcwidget4 until Easter, that's probably sufficiently early, but I have also come up with a backup plan: declare a versioned Breaks against aptitude and bump shlibs in libcwidget3v5. This requires uploads for both cwidget and aptitude, but does not need to through NEW. See these branches for cwidget and aptitude: https://salsa.debian.org/joachim-guest/cwidget/commits/ncurses6 https://salsa.debian.org/joachim-guest/aptitude/commits/ncurses6 Cheers, Sven
