Thanks for understanding. If you are to switch to embedded botan 1.10 before upstream sorts this out, you probably ought to upgrade the embedded version to latest upstream (1.10.17).
I think Christian has already filled RM bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=889675 Ondřej -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> > On 5 Feb 2018, at 21:08, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer > <perezme...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 5 February 2018 at 16:54, Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> wrote: >> We want to remove botan1.10 from testing, so yes, this warrants a serious >> severity, and it has only three r-depends: >> >> 1. monotone is dead (last upstream release 2011), we shouldn’t keep zombies >> in Debian >> >> 2. ovito is leaf package and ranked very low in popcon >> >> 3. qtcreator is a leaf package[a] and ranked high in popcon >> >> So I think it’s quite appropriate to fill serious bug instantly, as it >> doesn’t affect half of the archive, but just two (one) package. >> >> From quickly skimming the Botan usage in qtcreator, I think it might be >> quite easy to use botan 2.x in QtCreator. It’s just only a matter of >> somebody packaging it (and afaik our conversation will reset the auto-RM >> timer)... > > ACK then. I think you should really go and file the RoM bug then, I > can make qtcreator fall back to it's embedded version for the > meantime. > > I asked qtcreator's upstreams and so far I did not receive a reply on > this. we want to avoid a delta with them as much as possible.