On 09/09/15 07:00, Jose-Luis Rivas wrote:
> On 08/09/15, 10:24pm, Jose-Luis Rivas wrote:
>> Just to be clear, if I rebuild this with the source packages from
>> unstable with a new upstream version the rename is not necessary?
>
> Nevermind, upstream bumped soname anyway.
A new upstream SONAME makes the v5 transition rename unnecessary; but if
upstream have bumped SONAME, then they've broken API/ABI (or are doing
it wrong), which increases the risk that reverse-dependencies of
libtorrent will fail to compile or fail to work.
A new upstream release that does not bump the SONAME does not have any
effect on the need for a transition/rename.
I suspect that the lowest-risk approach to getting this transition
finished in a finite time is to do the v5 rename, then ask the release
team for a separate transition slot for the new upstream SONAME.
S
