On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 11:20 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 13:09 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 16:51 +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > > Le mardi 22 mars 2011 à 11:43 -0400, Adam C Powell IV a écrit : > > > > On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 16:34 +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > > > > Le mardi 22 mars 2011 à 11:22 -0400, Adam C Powell IV a écrit : > > > > > > On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 12:09 +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > > > > > Please upload to experimental. AFAICT one has to ask > > > > > > > debian-release > > > > > > > before uploading a new library, can someone confirm? > > > > > > > > > > > > I haven't heard this, and don't remember seeing anything in d-d-a on > > > > > > this. The NEW queue has, in the past day, entries for libav and > > > > > > libboost with new library versions in unstable, and libunique3 and > > > > > > hdf5 > > > > > > with new library versions in experimental (hdf5 changed by > > > > > > Sylvestre). > > > > > Well, about hdf5, I contacted the release team but haven't heard back. > > > > > Anyway, experimental is for such things... > > > > > > > > Really? When was the announcement? In the past, I've always uploaded > > > > new libraries into unstable, and they entered when they've passed > > > > through the NEW queue... > > > To me, when the binary compatibility of a library changes, you are > > > supposed to apply the > > > following procedure: > > > > > > http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#binarycompat > > > > Thanks, I hadn't seen that document. I don't see anything there on > > unstable vs. experimental though. > > > > [Also my last post only mentioned freecad, netgen and elmerfem; I didn't > > note that gmsh and salome are also reverse-depends of opencascade.] > > > > > > I don't see a post from you in the debian-release archives from this > > > > year (2011). When did you contact them? > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2011/02/msg00503.html > > > > Oh, my mistake. (I only looked at the first page of each month.) I > > notice that there weren't any followups. > > > > I have to say I am glad you are working with hdf5 -- that team was the > > slowest I have ever seen to process new patches etc.! > > > > > I uploaded to experimental to make sure it build correctly (which is not > > > the case here). After this is fixed, I will have to upload to unstable > > > and report bugs to the reverse dependencies of hdf5 asking them to > > > update the dependencies... > > > > I see, so you're using experimental to test building. As you said I > > don't think that's an issue here, so I think I can upload it to > > unstable, haven't heard anything to convince me otherwise... > > > > The updated packages are at http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/opencascade/ > > I uploaded these, which are targeted for unstable. For the > reverse-depends: > * elmerfem: I'll handle this.
Builds just fine, will need a binNMU > * freecad: Denis submitted bug 617545 with a patch, I just emailed > a note indicating OCC 6.5.0 is in NEW. > * gmsh: not tested, I'll try building and will submit a bug and > patch if needed. Builds just fine, will need a binNMU > * netgen: I'll handle this Just filed bug 619931, will investigate a fix when I get some time. > * salome: this issue will join the long queue of stuff to do on > this package... :-( ... :-( -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/
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