On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:58:12 +0100, Thibaut VARENE wrote: > severity 692327 important > thanks > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <x...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Package: libotr, release.debian.org > > Severity: serious > > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > > Usertags: transition > > > > Recently libotr has been updated to version 4.x.x with binary package > > name libotr5. > > > > By the looks of things, it was done because of pidgin-otr package which > > now requires libotr5. > > > > It was done because upstream has updated their source and the new libotr is > incompatible with the old one. > Which means it's not an appropriate change during a freeze.
> > > But this means an un-coordinated transition has started, as there are 6 > > other packages that build-depend on libotr2-dev and all of them fail to > > build from source against libotr5-dev: > > > > I was not aware a "coordinated transition" was necessary for such a small > library. I'm under the impression the release team has bigger fish to fry > right now. > Which is why they very much don't appreciate this kind of disruption. A SONAME bump in a library right now in sid is not welcome, and needs to wait until the wheezy release. Please revert. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
