On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 05:21:34PM -0500, Robert Middleton wrote:

> The last time we talked about this Tobias Frost said that the
> soft-freeze for Debian is the 12th of January[1], so after that point
> an updated library wouldn't make it into Debian.  I would like to get
> this version into Debian if possible(as that is the distribution I
> use), but that depends on Tobias' availability.

To have a chance to make that happen, I've started the transistion workflow [1].
TBH, due to the soft freeze is in less than two weeks, changes are high that
we won't make it, but at least I want to have tried it.

The first step is "Upload your new version to experimental (and have it clear
NEW)", which is what I've just have done: I've uploaded a snapshot (commit
cbd23ff1) to debian experimental. This needs now to be approved by the (Debian)
ftp masters, which is (usually) for such a change quick, but if they aren't or
not happy for any reason, this can spoil the game. [2]

Only after that, I can ask for a transition slot from the release team. If they 
are
not happy with a transition that late (IOW that short before the freeze), well
that will be something I have to accept and that will mean 1.0.0 not in
bookworm.

In parallel I'll see if the reverse dependencies are still building with the
new version, as for any breakage I will need to have patches available…

So, let's see how it works out.

[1] if you want to know the details: 
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions
[2] It needs to go through NEW due to the binary package rename, due to the 
SONAME bump.

-- 
tobi

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