Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition
In article <fb1v58-80c....@argenau.downhill.at.eu.org> (gmane.linux.debian.devel.release) you wrote: > Hello, > I have got a minor transition coming up: gnutls 2.12.0. > GnuTLS contains 4 libraries, some of these broke, but not the > important one: > libgnutls. The main library, some new symbols but no incompatible > changes. shlibs will be bumped, soname does not change. (Shipped in > package libgnutls26) > libgnutls-extra. non-LGPL code. shlibs bump but also no soname change. > (Shipped in package libgnutls26) > libgnutls-openssl. ABI breakage (changed public struct), but no API > breakage. soname bumped. This library used to be shipped in the > libgnutls26 package but I have moved it to a separate package, because > the soname version changed. > GnuTLS C++ wrapper. ABI breakage, soname bumped. No reverse > dependencies. (libgnutlsxx26 and libgnutlsxx27). > ---------------- > Transition plan: > 1. Find all packages linking against the OpenSSL wrapper library (extract > everything depending on libgnutls26, use objdump -p | grep NEEDED to > find linking binaries/librarires.) Last time I checked there were iirc > about 8 packages involved. > 2. Doublecheck whether they build against the new version. > 2. Add versioned Breaks for all packages linking against libgnutls-openssl > to the libgnutls26 package. I would use <= current-version-in-sid. > 3. Upload to sid. > 4. Trigger binNMUs for the packages found in 1. > ----------------- > Does this plan look ok? Any improvements? > I will follow up once I have uploaded 2.12.0 to experimental (2.11.7 is > available and should be basically identical.) and run through 1 and 2 > of the transition plan. Ok. Let me turn this into a bug report to keep it visible. gnutls 2.12.6.1-1 is in experimental, built successfully, and has the necessary conflicts. I doubt a longer exposure in experimental will find more issues and would like to upload to unstable when convenient. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
